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2025/11/29 IBM 1402 Live Demo at the Mountain View Computer History Museum

π 2025-11-29 01:01 in Computers, Sciencemuseums

I randomly happened to be a the CHM to drop off some donations, and noticed a room I didn't remember and found out they now had a fully working IBM 1402 (actually they had two).

Video demo:

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2025/07/17 Cambridge Center for Computing History

π 2025-07-17 01:01 in Computers, Museums, Sciencemuseums, Uk

This was a surprise in Cambridge, but maybe shouldn't have been given that Acorn/ARM was founded there and responsible for a sizeable portion of computer history.

One huge highlight was the wall computer chip that a single engineer built and that was running, showing all its insides:

The rest of the museum was very good too:

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2025/01/02 Gallerie De Geologie et de Mineralogie

π 2025-01-02 01:01 in Museums, Paris, Sciencemuseums

Another nice little museums in Paris' Jardin des plantes, I had been once in a past, but always nice to look at pretty stones :)

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2025/01/02 Gallerie de Paleontologie et de Anatomie Comparee

π 2025-01-02 01:01 in Paris, Sciencemuseums

This was my 2nd time in this natural history museum in Paris' Jardin des Plantes, because of the holidays, it was hard to get in (the available slots had filled up, but I found a way by being creative). It is a very packed museum from an overachieving team probably around 100 years ago, in bringing lots of specimens and sorting them by type:

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2024/04/09 Texas Toy Museum and Arcade in Austin

π 2024-04-09 01:01 in Computers, Sciencemuseums, Texas

I finished my day visit of Austin in the Texas Toy Museum and Arcade, which had a pretty cool collection of old video games, flippers, role playing games, cartoons, and other geek memorabilia:

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2023/12/30 National Videogame Museum in Sheffield, UK

π 2023-12-30 01:01 in Computers, Sciencemuseums, Uk

While briefly in Sheffield, I had a little bit of time before going back to Manchester, and the most enticing place to visit was the National Videogame Museum.
Once there, I only had about 1H as it closes betweeen 13:00 and 14:00. I didn't have a much time to play, but enough time to look around and enjoy the collection:

The various historical collections were fairly good:

Hopefully I'll be back in Sheffield one day, and will have time to play more next time.

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2023/07/03 London Science Museum, Take 2

π 2023-07-03 01:01 in Sciencemuseums

I went there back in 2017, but since I was next door with a few hours left, dropped by for a couple of hours for another quick visit as part of a quick 2 day visit of London.

Fun to go again:

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2023/07/03 London Natural History Museum

π 2023-07-03 01:01 in Sciencemuseums

This was the last major London museum I hadn't seen yet, so I was excited to finally be able to visit it as part of a quick 2 day visit of London. I was ready for a full day as I knew it was big, but with efficient sightseeing was able to finish it 2h before closing time which left some time to re-visit the science museum next door.
Many things to see there, so these are just a few excerpts:

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2023/02/13 Unexpected Private Computer Museum Outside Montreal: E-Musee Computer Museum

π 2023-02-13 01:01 in Sciencemuseums

I had a bit of time to kill in Montréal, so I pulled google maps, and typed "museum". Most museums are closed on mondays, so my options were limited, and then I found this. I was a bit skeptical, no reviews on google maps, so I thought I'd give it a shot, because why not?
I didn't expect the museum to be within a computer store, but it was, and it ended up being a quite impressive private collection. I was positively surprised and spent over one hour going through all the displays and explanations.

Lots of cool memories and trip in memory lane

daugherboards that contained entire motherboards and CPUs, cool

I remember having a MB like this, also note the extra holes around the CPU to allow for bigger CPUs to fit

man, I remember all of these

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2022/04/10 LA's California Science Center

π 2022-04-10 01:01 in Sciencemuseums

It had been a while since I had been in the area, so since ASOT 1000 was happening in the same location, it was a good excuse to go visit again:

The really cool part of that museum is of course the space shuttle that was moved there:

including a booster

After flying the space shuttle to LAX (through a nice flight across the california coast, I remember seeing it when it flew by the bay area), they show the challenging trip to the science center:

The rest of the museum was still fun to see, including a next expo on Ankor:

And nice gardens on the way out:

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