[TriEmbed] Virtual Vintage Computer Festival

[Kevin McClaning]

While we're on the subject of cool geek places, the National Security 
Agency in MD has an excellent museum on Cryptology. You can play with an 
actual Enigma machine and they have a couple of Cray supercomputers 
running. They also have retired NSA'ers running the place so you can ask 
technical questions.
Kevin

On 8/2/20 11:15 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote:
> 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 
> <https://computerhistory.org/> 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 
>> <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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