5 Sep
2004
5 Sep
'04
10:50 p.m.
Say, I found a mighty swell book today at the local ham swap.
Title: The "Compulator" Book - Building Super Calculators & Minicomputer
Hardware with Calculator Chips (How to mate the COMPuter with the
calcULATOR) by R. P. Haviland. Several copies are available on ABE,
Alibris, etc.
NeAt-O!
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6 Sep
6 Sep
6:56 p.m.
Most of our displays here at the museum are pretty static.....
we are looking for ideas on introducing some interactive component... ideas
folks?
thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc
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Subject: Cool book
Say, I found a mighty swell book today at the local ham swap.
Title: The "Compulator" Book - Building Super Calculators & Minicomputer
Hardware with Calculator Chips (How to mate the COMPuter with the
calcULATOR) by R. P. Haviland. Several copies are available on ABE,
Alibris, etc.
NeAt-O!
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10:40 p.m.
New subject: Interactive displays was Re: Cool book
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, ed sharpe wrote:
Most of our displays here at the museum are pretty
static.....
we are looking for ideas on introducing some interactive component... ideas
folks?
Have a free "Smash the Altair!" day whereby people take swings at an
Altair 8800 suspended from a wire. It can be a political statement about
the soaring values of old computers. Of course, in the process you'll be
promoting the higher prices since you'll be having to refill your stocks
of old Altairs from eBay.
:)
Beyond that, games always grab your imagination. Run old versions of
Hammurabi, Hunt the Wumpus, etc.
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8 Sep
8 Sep
1:10 p.m.
New subject: Interactive displays was Re: Cool book
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:40, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, ed sharpe wrote:
> Most of our displays here at the museum are pretty static.....
>
> we are looking for ideas on introducing some interactive component... ideas
> folks?
Make them sort spilled card decks.
Re-spool dropped paper tape.
Vacuum chad out of the carpeting.
Load the FORTRAN compiler tape into core at 110 baud.
More seriously, maybe a 'toggle the bootstrap' speed contest for nerdly
kids.
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