To all with interest in IBM 7090

There is a real problem about computer heritage. These machines are, arguably, one of the most important inventions in human history - but very few have any interest in how they work, or how they evolved over time. It seemed in the '90s with the rise of Windows and Microsoft, everyone moved away from that level of knowledge. The Ontario Science Center outside of Toronto had a magnificent computer display showing logic gates and their interaction(in fact, as a child I was featured in a commercial for the centre playing with that exact display). Microsoft made a donation, and it was all pulled out - replaced by desktop machines. I've been fascinated with computers almost my entire life, and it's an ongoing goal of mine to help propagate that sort of information. I've been wanting to see if I could put together a kit that would mimic the old TX-0 architecture, then offer it as a kit through a place like Seeed Studio. I'm not aware of any active kits for the old style of toggle-switch programmed machine. On 2012-08-08, at 5:49 PM, Dave <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote: