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Leevmeister
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Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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 Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:43 am Post subject: Correct Radio, TV and Computer museum,Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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Since recently i work for a local computer museum in Rotterdam.
It's called: Correct Radio, TV and Computer museum.
It started in 1998 with the radio museum as a base, and in 2003 the tv and computer part opened it doors to public.
I work here voluntarily 1 day in the weekend.
Mainly i fix up some computers, and make them do something (for example, i installed Wolfenstein 3d on a IBM PS/2 machine).
It's also a way for me to get some more processors that i can't easily get here, because the museum gets a lot of stuff donated, and if they don't need it, or it's not relevant to the museum, i get it 
Here are some pictures (they are slightly dated) of the place, only from the computer museum, if you want to watch pictures of the other places like the radio museum, click this link : http://draaiorgelsite.freeforums.org/07-02-2009-rotterdams-radio-tv-computer-museum-t2475.html
Please tell me what you think of the museum |
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debs3759
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:53 am Post subject: |
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WOW! That looks like heaven!
I've been thinking of volunteering at a computer museum about 20 miles from me, it'll be interesting to see if Ican get the same sort of resultas you (ie free chipsand computers for doingit)
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JAC
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:05 am Post subject: |
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| So much cool stuff! |
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msze
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Amazing, could spend forever in there... thanks for sharing that with us... anyone for space invaders? |
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naked1300
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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i would say like freddy mercury in one of his song:
MADE IN HEAVEN
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Appaloosa
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| naked1300 wrote: | i would say like freddy mercury in one of his song:
MADE IN HEAVEN
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Thats really true...
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Leevmeister
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| about the hdd's, that not what we have lying around there, we also have a hdd platter from some kind of mainframe. it's huge, almost 1.5 meters in diameter. it's just awesome to work for this museum, and get paid with chips |
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CPUShack
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Xaar
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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WOW! That looks really great! At the first moment I thought it's a photograph of an old computer shop.
We also have a computer museum in our city. They have some old home/office computer but they mostly have bigger computers (mainfraimes from Zuse and Robotron). These computers are - as you can imagine - mostly not working and defect.
Your museum instead has life in it
How many percent of the computers in your museum are able to work? Does the PDP (a PDP8/e?) work?
Regards, Karsten. |
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johnorun
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| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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WOw- It's new and very well laid out with lots of space for each computer and it looks like everything is hands-on usable.
Lucky Leev.
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Windmiller
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| johnorun wrote: | WOw- It's new and very well laid out with lots of space for each computer and it looks like everything is hands-on usable.
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My thoughts exactly, neat layout. |
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Leevmeister
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Xaar wrote: | WOW! That looks really great! At the first moment I thought it's a photograph of an old computer shop.
We also have a computer museum in our city. They have some old home/office computer but they mostly have bigger computers (mainfraimes from Zuse and Robotron). These computers are - as you can imagine - mostly not working and defect.
Your museum instead has life in it
How many percent of the computers in your museum are able to work? Does the PDP (a PDP8/e?) work?
Regards, Karsten. |
I really like about this museum that things are running, because everything black screen is not inviting  And the computer museum has to be inviting to people, and they can use some computers freely and play a game on it (c64, atari2600, msx, videopac etc.).
I don't know the percentage how much computers do work, but i know that there are a lot that do work (some newer models like imac g4 and g5 of course not ).
Here is a small list of machines we have that do work (and i know about them working):
Apple IIc, Apple Macintosh SE, 20th Anniversary Mac, Emac (even though it crashes all the time, HOW 'BOUT THAT APPLE???)
Acorn BBC
Olivetti M21 (luggable pc like compaq portable)
IBM XT
IBM PS/2 (model with MCA slots and DX4/100 cpu)
MSX (various brands and models)
Atari 2600
Amiga 500
C64
HP-85 (machine which came from dutch goverment)
About the PDP-8, i have no idea if it works, but we most likely can't even test it |
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CPUShack
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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ohhh an ACORN BBC those are cool, on of the first ARM powered computers.
Wonder if you could photograph its processor.
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