Wow, maybe you should open a computer museum. I remember taking a class where you wire up metal panels sticking wires with jackplugs into holes in the panel. running keypunch cards through a sorter. I believe it had something to do with programming the first computers. Memory gets dim over time.
In my first college chemistry lab (Chapel Hill), we had to use a manual keypuncher to punch our lab results into IBM punch cards. It was like a hole puncher with a dial on it for the characters. Turn the dial, punch, move the card down, repeat. In astronomy class, we used an acoustic modem to dial in to the Research Triangle mainframe.
If I win the lottery, I'll open a museum, but it will have even more than the computer stuff. There will be audio stuff, old books, toys I got in the early 50s, and much more.
I have a rich cousin whose house is a museum of sorts. He actually has the same duplicate of the time machine that was used in an episode of "Big Bang Theory." It has signatures of the actors on it. I haven't been to his mansion since he bought that, as well as the robot from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Lost in Space." That last one is signed by Bill Mumy, Will Robinson. I have a picture of him signing it.
Wow, maybe you should open a computer museum. I remember taking a class where you wire up metal panels sticking wires with jackplugs into holes in the panel. running keypunch cards through a sorter. I believe it had something to do with programming the first computers. Memory gets dim over time.
In my first college chemistry lab (Chapel Hill), we had to use a manual keypuncher to punch our lab results into IBM punch cards. It was like a hole puncher with a dial on it for the characters. Turn the dial, punch, move the card down, repeat. In astronomy class, we used an acoustic modem to dial in to the Research Triangle mainframe.
If I win the lottery, I'll open a museum, but it will have even more than the computer stuff. There will be audio stuff, old books, toys I got in the early 50s, and much more.
I have a rich cousin whose house is a museum of sorts. He actually has the same duplicate of the time machine that was used in an episode of "Big Bang Theory." It has signatures of the actors on it. I haven't been to his mansion since he bought that, as well as the robot from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Lost in Space." That last one is signed by Bill Mumy, Will Robinson. I have a picture of him signing it.