When we can safely travel and be indoors with casual strangers
again, those of you who find yourselves near Mountain View,
California should consider visiting the Computer History Museum on
Shoreline Blvd. Plan on a day or two if you're hard core, a half a
day if medium interested. You can walk INSIDE a piece of the ENIAC.
They also have some pieces of the SAGE (IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer for
the Air Force that defined the state of the art in aspects of
graphics processing in the 1950s), a Cray One, etc, etc, as well as
tons of more recent stuff.
-Pete
On 8/1/20 11:01 PM, Rodney Radford via
TriEmbed wrote:
I watched the Virtual Vintage Computer Festival
today and really enjoyed it and thought some on this list
would enjoy some (all?) the sessions.
You can see them on their Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/VintageComputerFederation501c3/videos
Some of the highlights (to me) were:
* two talks on the ENIAC - how it worked, real issues
found, etc (I ordered the ENIAC technical reference manual
reprint mentioned in the video)
* recovering magnetic media from tape
* retroshield for the Arduino Mega - he uses the Arduino
to handle the RAM, ROM, IO, etc, but then plugs in a real
CPU chip and he has adapters for several of the 4 and 8bit
older CPUs
* Sol 20 - but this one is special to me as I own a Sol
20 ;-)
* MIT Whirlwind system
* Apollo DSKY - making a real Apollo display work
* Advanced 6502 programming (great description of the
architecture and I ordered both of the books mentioned)
But honestly, there was not a single presentation that I did
not find fascinating. So if you have the spare time and want
to learn about older computers, please take a look at the
videos.
I have attended a few other virtual conferences in the last
few weeks, and plan to attend more as they become available
(virtual vintage computer east will be in October)
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