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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 <a href="https://computerhistory.org/" dir="auto">Computer History Museum</a> 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
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-Pete<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix" dir="auto">On 8/1/20 11:01 PM, Rodney Radford via
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<div dir="ltr">I watched the Virtual Vintage Computer Festival
today and really enjoyed it and thought some on this list
would enjoy some (all?) the sessions.
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<div>You can see them on their Youtube channel:</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/VintageComputerFederation501c3/videos">https://www.youtube.com/c/VintageComputerFederation501c3/videos</a><br>
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Some of the highlights (to me) were:</div>
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<div>* two talks on the ENIAC - how it worked, real issues
found, etc (I ordered the ENIAC technical reference manual
reprint mentioned in the video)</div>
<div>* recovering magnetic media from tape</div>
<div>* 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</div>
<div>* Sol 20 - but this one is special to me as I own a Sol
20 ;-)</div>
<div>* MIT Whirlwind system</div>
<div>* Apollo DSKY - making a real Apollo display work <br>
* Advanced 6502 programming (great description of the
architecture and I ordered both of the books mentioned)</div>
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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.</div>
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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)</div>
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