It's a computer museum, but they work. They're turned on, and you can use them! You can program them; you can even get an account to access ancient computers over the internet (via telnet).
For example, look at the cool as hell control panel and general design of this thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Sigma_9 -- light bulbs add something to computers that LEDs don't. :)
If nothing else, it makes us nerds happy. Thanks, Paul.
But my personal favorite, even if it doesn't benefit large swaths of humanity in the same way as a cell research insitute:
https://livingcomputers.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Computers:_Museum_%2B_L...
It's a computer museum, but they work. They're turned on, and you can use them! You can program them; you can even get an account to access ancient computers over the internet (via telnet).
For example, look at the cool as hell control panel and general design of this thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Sigma_9 -- light bulbs add something to computers that LEDs don't. :)
If nothing else, it makes us nerds happy. Thanks, Paul.