One of the best days ever: took my boys to CHM where they got to play Space War on a PDP-1 against the man that programmed it!
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#22Went for the first time a couple weeks ago while on a road trip — incredible! However I counted about two dozen items on display that I own, which tells me I should slow down on the collecting / ramp up the downsizing.
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#23The living computer museum used to have SSH access for their vintage systems.
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#24CHM employee here. Always great to see CHM on HN. Glad folks are excited about this -- as are we! There's so much cool stuff in the Collection.
The picture of the 4004 and 8008 are super low res
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#25Google Maps says people spend 0.5-3 hours there. I spent 6.5 because it was so amazing. Highly recommended.
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#26Google Maps says people spend 0.5-3 hours there. I spent 6.5 because it was so amazing. Highly recommended.
A similar experience for me was the Connections Museum in Seattle: I came just after opening, and time flew by such that I was surprised when they told me they were closing up
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#27This place is great, but my work had a function here and I walked around with one of our juniors and never have I felt so old. The pure astonishment and confusion when looking at a “floppy disk” aged me instantly.
You mean the real-life save icons?
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#28The living computer museum used to have SSH access for their vintage systems.
The "interim computer museum" has some (most?) of that now: https://icm.museum/?faq
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#29Google Maps says people spend 0.5-3 hours there. I spent 6.5 because it was so amazing. Highly recommended.
A similar experience for me was the Connections Museum in Seattle: I came just after opening, and time flew by such that I was surprised when they told me they were closing up
I was able to go to the Living Computer Museum and I got there when they first opened and wound up staying until closing time. I was just so into all the stuff there :-)
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#30This place is great, but my work had a function here and I walked around with one of our juniors and never have I felt so old. The pure astonishment and confusion when looking at a “floppy disk” aged me instantly.
I've seen my own work in that museum. I felt super old!