22 Jun
1998
22 Jun
'98
1:13 a.m.
>> It can't be as bad as the Science Museum
in London, surely. I was there
>> earlier this week, and what a _joke_!!!
> I never been there - hmm maybe I should tak a
weekend - is
> there a Website to get the opening hours ?
Well, IMHO, it's worth the admission charge
(\pounds 6.50 (!)) if you're
interested in things other than classic computers. But it's not worth it
for the computers alone.
I've been interested in clocks for about 25 years
or more, so seeing a
Synchronome working (even if the description wasn't that good) was worth
it. Ditto for a lot of the other clocks (going back many centuries) -
most of them are ticking away...
Alas they've added some of those
'interactive' experiments. While a good
idea in theory, I'm not sure they should be combined with collections of
historical scientific instruments, etc. The groups of people interested
in the two displays would have virtually no intersection IMHO.
Hmm. The Deutsches Museum is a 'hands-on'/'interactive') museum
since the first years, and the combination of historic displays
and learning works fine - at least for me.
> Ok, the 2002 wouldn't be exactly the machine
for continous
> display in action, but even if it is just as static display,
No, but fire it up from time to time to show it in
operation. Even just 1
or 2 days a year. Announce the days in advance and the hackers can come
along and see a real machine in operation
> this one time running test ist the best
verification that the
> static display is _complete_.
> (In fact, the critical part of the 2002 is the storage drum -
> even back in time when it was new, every power up and down
> had to be guarded by tecnicans - hmm but even here, since
> the drum is a closed device, one could replace it (invisible)
> by a modern electronic emulation... just thinking)
Oh, back the heads off the drum and replace it with a
set of RAMs and
counters :-). Keep the drum turning, and demonstrate the machine with
more modern memory (at least for day-to-day operation).
Exactly my idea of a display ...
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK