[SGVLUG] computer history museum

[Claude Felizardo]

Very cool.  Including the followup to the enigma video.



On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Jess Bermudes <jbermudes at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you ever want to see the world's oldest operating electronic stored
> program computer, there's a video of Harwell Dekatron computer, a computer
> built in 1949 that uses these neat Dekatron decimal counting vacuum tubes
> that light up as the volatile memory at the Bletchley Park National Museum
> of Computing on Youtube:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvDUDGiL9EQ
>
> I've also heard that they sell in their giftshop PCB versions of the WWII
> German Enigma machines that you can assemble. To learn how Enigma worked,
> the Youtube channel Numberphiles did a neat show and tell of it:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_Q9FoD-oQ
>
>
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> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Doug <dougvargas at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> No it's okay, I know it's just because nobody loves me...sob sob :p I had
>> a great time in silicon valley and i definitely want to talk about it a
>> little bit at the next lug, but sadly the computer history museum wasn't
>> quite what I hoped it would be - it was fantastic, don't get me wrong, but
>> the culture and the people who created all of these incredible technologies
>> were completely missing, quite sad. Still a great place though and I have
>> some cool things to share that I learned there
>>
>>
>> DV <vindimy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A lot of SGVLUG messages have been going to Spam in Gmail, so don't feel
>> bad if nobody responds :)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Doug Vargas <dougvargas at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>>
>>> hey all, i'll be going to the computer history museum (
>>> computerhistory.org) on sunday, is there anything anyone would like to
>>> me take photos of or anything cool I should check out? If my visit is
>>> fruitful enough it could probably make for a decent talk if anybody's
>>> interested.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards, Dmitriy V.
>>
>
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