Museums like this can be a little overwhelming. There is so much to take in. I often lose focus and just skim over to see it all. But I know the most interesting bits are in the details. Do any of you have a nice strategy for getting the most out of a visit ?
Retro Computer Museum
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#83Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA USA https://computerhistory.org Kennett Classic in Kennett Square, PA USA https://www.kennettclassic.com Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA USA https://www.mact.io System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, MD USA https://museum.syssrc.com/ Vintage Computer Federation Museum at Infoage in Wall NJ USA https://vcfed.org/museum-info/
National Videogame Museum in Frisco, TX https://nvmusa.org/
I went there in September of last year and really enjoyed it. If anyone wants to see some of it, I posted my pics in a blog post. Unfortunately it doesn't have many pictures of the computers that were hands on there, but more of the video game consoles. https://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/09/national-videogame-museum-t...
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#84Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA USA https://computerhistory.org Kennett Classic in Kennett Square, PA USA https://www.kennettclassic.com Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA USA https://www.mact.io System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, MD USA https://museum.syssrc.com/ Vintage Computer Federation Museum at Infoage in Wall NJ USA https://vcfed.org/museum-info/
Connections Museum in Seattle, WA (telecom focus)
https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
"when a man is tired of Swindon, he is tired of life"
"When a man is tired of life he goes to Swindon to discover real fear and that life may not be so bad after all" Yes, I've been on the Magic Roundabout, nearly shat myself and I wasn't even driving.
I'm imagining you tackling it on foot now.
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#86A bit tangential, but 'Leicester' is one of those wonderful British place-names that doesn't really follow any English pronunciation rules and you just have to know the right one... In this case 'Leicester' is pronounced 'Lester'.
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#87Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA USA https://computerhistory.org Kennett Classic in Kennett Square, PA USA https://www.kennettclassic.com Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA USA https://www.mact.io System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, MD USA https://museum.syssrc.com/ Vintage Computer Federation Museum at Infoage in Wall NJ USA https://vcfed.org/museum-info/
Hopefully someday we can re-add Living Computers in Seattle, WA USA to the list. https://www.livingcomputers.org Paul Allen's death, and then the COVID pandemic, effectively put the museum in stasis. At least two of Allen's former museum-ish places are getting to reopen soon - both the downtown Cinerama and the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor museum in Mukilteo have been sold by his estate and are reopening this yea…
If the Cinerama can be saved, so then can the LCM, one should hope. The LCM isn’t in the same kind of prime location the Cinerama is. I picture the terms to be different, no pre-existing 3rd party to hand things off to, and getting some of the key people back is going to be a challenge.
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#88There's also the Computer & Communication Museum in Galway, Ireland for those who happen to be in the area. Only open upon request though!
https://ccmireland.com/collections/
The city has a rich history of computer manufacturing in the 80s and 90s, with DEC and later Compaq, and APC. They have a PDP-11 (sadly not working), many DEC terminals and a whole range of home computers, among others.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's also the Museum of Computing in Swindon. https://www.museumofcomputing.org.uk/ I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to visit it, but if you find yourself in Swindon for some reason, then it's worth a peep.
I can also highly recommend a visit to The National Museum of Computing. https://www.tnmoc.org/ While you're there, take a stroll around Bletchley Park as well. Last time I checked, you get a discount when visiting both, and they're right next to each other.
This weekend (5/20-21) they’re hosting an Acorn Econet LAN party!
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#90Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA USA https://computerhistory.org Kennett Classic in Kennett Square, PA USA https://www.kennettclassic.com Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA USA https://www.mact.io System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, MD USA https://museum.syssrc.com/ Vintage Computer Federation Museum at Infoage in Wall NJ USA https://vcfed.org/museum-info/
We must go nearly all the same places :P