Proverb2 Visits – The National Museum of Computing

While attending a trade show in Bedford this weekend I popped over to Bletchley Park to visit the National Museum of Computing and met up with a few old friends 🙂

IMG_20160730_132210Remember the dreaded RAM pack wobble!

IMG_20160730_131850As a trainee technician I once connected two of these VT220s back to back and tried to fool my colleagues that I had an AI program running on the mainframe.

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These Transputers were the future once.
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I am sure the seat outside Fenwicks cafe in Newcastle was actually a Cray supercomputer.

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Source code
10 PRINT “Jon is King  “;
20 GOTO 10
This is not on github.

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A mate of mine once carried once of these around a trade show, as it was soo portable!

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The Oric Atmos was not particularly acceptable in the 80s, but I bought one.

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Wow, feeling so nostalgic I could bubble.

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Osborn, the first laptop!

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There was a sign saying “Do not touch” otherwise I would have knocked up a quick program using the front panel of this PDP11.

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I used to be able to type quite quickly on the Agenda personal organiser.

Well worth a visit if you are in the area. TNMOC

 

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