Post 9lwpLL1J247ITfD5xQ by anne@beach.city
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(DIR) Post #9lwpLL1J247ITfD5xQ by anne@beach.city
2019-08-16T10:11:48Z
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Anyone else miss the degauss button on fancy old CRTs?Not that I ever had to degauss one (I learned my lesson after the TV incident) but there was something about the way it made your picture jump around that was satisfying.#retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #9lwpLLGY7OJHEwLGiW by ak@lgbt.io
2019-08-16T10:13:23Z
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@anne They used to make a "boing!" sound, too. When my high school eventually got rid of its room full of BBC Micros and bought PCs, kids would forever be getting told off for degaussing the monitors in the middle of a dull IT lesson.
(DIR) Post #9lwpLLPlZ7gNhWed5E by ak@lgbt.io
2019-08-16T10:16:40Z
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@anne In what appears to be a deliberate attempt to make me feel old, the National Museum of Computing near Milton Keynes has a classroom that looks pretty much exactly like my classroom from high school.https://www.tnmoc.org/classroom
(DIR) Post #9lwpLLcsmMAsMCn6Wm by anne@beach.city
2019-08-16T10:31:13Z
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@ak oh wow I have to visit there - cryptography was the Big Thing when I was an undergrad and so Bletchley Park was legendary. We never had labs full of computers in school, though, just one Apple II we could use. The kids mostly played the (terrible) Jeopardy game on it, though I think the Oregon Trail was also available.
(DIR) Post #9lwpLLtXmPVBBsaPUu by ak@lgbt.io
2019-08-16T10:33:50Z
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@anne Bletchley Park is alright, but it's not especially technical in content - it's very much WW2-focused and a bit jingoistic. Look what Great Britain did, we won the war!The National Museum of Computing is far more technically interesting and it's independent of Bletchley Park, it just has its building on the same site. It has a working rebuild of Colossus and a lot of volunteers who used to work on the original machines and will talk through them with you, for instance.