[SGVLUG] computer history museum

[Jess Bermudes]

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




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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