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JumbleDuck said:
Have you seen it? The Deutsches Museum section on computers is fantastic and many of the exhibits, including the Z3, are regularly run.

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Regrettably not! The earliest bit of computing history I've had my hands on is a bit of Titan's core memory; I've still got it somewhere around. The first computer I used was at DAMTP in Cambridge in about 1972 or 1973! In the late 70s I worked with a guy associated with the early history of computing; a guy called Hugh Beggs, who was involved with the LEO range of computers, developed by Lyons Tea Shops - the first business user of computers to handle things like payroll, inventory etc.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
In the late 70s I worked with a guy associated with the early history of computing; a guy called Hugh Beggs, who was involved with the LEO range of computers, developed by Lyons Tea Shops - the first business user of computers to handle things like payroll, inventory etc.
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Early 70's my first 'proper' job was with the MOD marking up timesheets from Portsmouth Dockyard ready to be fed into the LEO computer for calculation.
Next stage was to fill little brown envelopes with notes and coins to be taken round the yard and outstations to be handed to the workers.
Cash in hand meant just that, rather than the slightly murky connotations today...
 
If you "hover" over the "Members on-line" list at the bottom RHS, you will discover that everyone scores both "reactions" and "points". By whom or why they are awarded night be explained by the staff??
 
Sandy said:
It's only a "feature" of the forum software.

I feel the technical contribution of a member is much more interesting.
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I very much appreciate, as I'm sure others do, the technical contributions of some members and, variously, the wit, erudition, thoughtfulness and just plain decency of some others.

I think there it would be nice if there were some sort of 'exalted member status' (and possibly the obverse of that! ?) reserved for those who are felt to go the extra mile (or too far!).

It perhaps says something about computing, though I don't know quite what, that it is more amenable to measuring quantities than such qualities.

There could be some sort of mechanism whereby people could be nominated for this exalted (or execrated!) status, which would be awarded if sufficiently supported by the forum membership (or at least those best qualified to judge;)).

The trouble is that devising such a mechanism would require a very long, digressive and bad tempered thread to consider the options.:D
 
JumbleDuck said:
Have you seen it? The Deutsches Museum section on computers is fantastic and many of the exhibits, including the Z3, are regularly run.

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I remember the Deutsches Museum having a lot of mechanical analogue computers. Things a little like planometers which could integrate complex functions.
Then there were analogue electronic computers which could perform most mathematical functions.
 
lw395 said:
I remember the Deutsches Museum having a lot of mechanical analogue computers. Things a little like planometers which could integrate complex functions.
Then there were analogue electronic computers which could perform most mathematical functions.
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Yes, plenty of both of them still. It's not quite as wonderful a place as it was, partly because about half the Museuminsel site in central Munich is closed for renovation and partly because they have split the collection up a bit, so the aircraft (for example) are not on the main site any more. Still well worth a visit, though. I think it interesting that the "German Museum" is a museum of science and technology while the "British Museum" is a warehouse full of imperial plunder and looting.
 
JumbleDuck said:
Yes, plenty of both of them still. It's not quite as wonderful a place as it was, partly because about half the Museuminsel site in central Munich is closed for renovation and partly because they have split the collection up a bit, so the aircraft (for example) are not on the main site any more. Still well worth a visit, though. I think it interesting that the "German Museum" is a museum of science and technology while the "British Museum" is a warehouse full of imperial plunder and looting.
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I find it most aggravating that museums are now putting items on 'display' rather than letting us look at them. I loved the aircraft engine section in the Science Museum, where wonderful exotic multi-cylinder engines were basically standing on the floor for inspection. Last time I visited half were gone and many of the rest were hanging high above head height in near-darkness.
 
JumbleDuck said:
Yes, plenty of both of them still. It's not quite as wonderful a place as it was, partly because about half the Museuminsel site in central Munich is closed for renovation and partly because they have split the collection up a bit, so the aircraft (for example) are not on the main site any more. Still well worth a visit, though. I think it interesting that the "German Museum" is a museum of science and technology while the "British Museum" is a warehouse full of imperial plunder and looting.
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Unlike Berlin’s Pergamon Museum where central exhibits include the swiped Pergamon Alter, the Market Gate of Milete, and the Ishtar Gate.

The Germans even nicked the City Gates of Babel!!
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vyv_cox said:
I find it most aggravating that museums are now putting items on 'display' rather than letting us look at them. I loved the aircraft engine section in the Science Museum, where wonderful exotic multi-cylinder engines were basically standing on the floor for inspection. Last time I visited half were gone and many of the rest were hanging high above head height in near-darkness.
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You will despair then, as I despair, at the abysmally bad Riverside Museum in Glasgow, where interest in the objects on display came second every time it fought the monstrous ego of Zaha Hadid. See, for example, the last surviving locomotive of the Glasgow & South Western Railway, projecting out of a wall where nobody can properly look at it. See an excellent collection of cars, and the finest collection of Scottish cars in the world, mounted trendily on a wall:

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The Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh is almost as bad. Both suffer from being run by arts graduates with masters degrees in museum studies who know nothing about science or engineering and whose response to those collections is therefore never deeper than "that looks nice".

When I was at university I was interested in museum work and so, meeting the then director of the Science Museum at an event, as I asked him what I should do to get a job in South Kensington. "Get a doctorate in science or engineering and then write to me" he said. It's not like that now.

And ... relax.
 
fwiw and keeping on the off-topic, in Nov I visited again Malmo and went with 19yo son to the Technology and Maritime Museum. Exhibits, down to ground level, easy to follow and understand engines, a u-boat that you could crawl through, and v.many things to see. Knackered after a full day there and still a few more things to see.
For the Swedes it was the first day that they saw the sun after Sept ffs and they were delighted (we were simply freezing and not v.impressed with a bit of sun...)

V.
 
We know what the "Reaction score" is but what is the significance of "Score" . Can anyone tell me?

Maybe comment #2 gives a clue but then how do you get "Trophy Points"?
 
what a lot of carp. "Like" buttons were invented by facebook for school kids.
Not a bunch of mature intelligent and worthy people such as us.
From now on i shall attempt to subvert the system by pressing the like button on every post i read and implore you to do the same.(unless of course i dont like it! That would be silly wouldnt it?) If we all cooperate we will all be top tier members in no time. And then what?
 
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