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A Visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum

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And check out the Living Computer Museum if you're in Seattle (https://livingcomputers.org/). They have a ton of systems you can play with including a CDC 6500 and a DEC PDP-8e.

When I was a child, I visited the computer museum in Boston, and have very fond memories of it. I dearly wish it still existed in the same form today, I would appreciate it so much more.

If I'm not mistaken, the thiveing Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, is where everything from that museum moved to, so no(?) artifacts were lost. I can personally recommend it.

This looks really cool, and it's only a 4.5 hour drive.

As an aside: Is anybody familiar with a curated list anywhere of interesting "geek" tourist destinations? Just today I've seen this museum and the "rotary jail"-turned museums [1]. I would love to plan road trips around these kinds of attractions.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337410

Sounds like a great doc to start on github and source contributions.

I recall some interesting suggestions on the thread about Trinity Nuclear Test site open house [0]. Perhaps you could visit Fermilab. Strictly speaking, though, all museums are 'geek' destinations (just primarily history/art oriented).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19568145

This is neat!

If you're near Atlanta, check out the recently opened https://computermuseumofamerica.org/

They have the largest collection of Cray supercomputers in the world, plus lots more.

Now I feel old. I've worked with some of those things.

Me too. We had an Eclipse MV-8000 in college (the subject of The Soul of a New Machine [0]) and it was a nice computer.

Later I worked with AS/400s, first the beige racks, then the all-black models. Still a nice machine today [1], and if you want something to run a mid-sized business "lights off", you should consider it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

[1] Somehow, IBM hasn't managed to fuck it up

When I was a kid, they did a family day at the facility where my mom worked... saw a Cray-2 actually in-use (it's a very distinctive machine, hard to forget). So, I'm pushing 40 and just old enough to have seen some of these things outside of a museum :)

Is there anything like this in Ontario?

I came across this one recently, but it's closed apparently: https://pcmuseum.ca/

I went to an awesome one in Croatia that had tons of stuff: https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g297516-d362915...

The large scale concept is a great idea.

Good stuff! Also, if you're near Mountain View you should visit the Computer History Museum.

earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208477

Holy crap Google Photos is annoying. Would much rather just have a link to a JPEG

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