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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/2/20 11:15 PM, Pete Soper via
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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
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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. <br dir="auto">
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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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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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