The National Museum of Computing

I couldn't get very far in two hours.

I actually did go back to this on several successive days and I got some, I got what I felt was extremely far, right? I was doing, I was getting, you know, five whole paper, I work at the National Museum of Computing, right? old teleprinters and that which were used for decrypting of uh of world war ii messages right so this is sort of world war one era this is set in in 1917 right so world war one era versions of the same thing but you have these tapes with bodo code on them which is the precursor to ita2 which is what they had in world war ii but it's similar um you know five hole punch for for letter codes 32 possible symbols and there's some shift characters you can put in there And, you know, I was having a lot of fun.

Oh, there's a message from Clemenceau and there's a message from so-and-so.

And you're supposed to, I kind of worked out, you're supposed to use one for a different purpose than the other and all these other things.

Could I address the camera for a moment here? Rybread Celsius, or whomever it is behind this alias, this submission, if you think you can generate a physical cartridge of Logic Land that would play on, I believe, a PAL version Atari 2600, I ask you to please ship it.

Attention, Nick.

to the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, yeah? That's my call out to the public right now.

Please send us this cartridge because we do have Atari 2600s and I would love to play it in the PC gallery, the 80s game gallery at the museum to demonstrate to the public just what is possible with some of these extremely strange old machines.

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I can tell you, if you go to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, that game Blocks, which I wrote, is on the Amstrad 1512 at the National Museum of Computing, and you can try out the boss screen.

Alt + B?

Uh, I think it's...

It's more, in retrospect, operators being like, oh yeah, that probably wasn't the best, huh? What makes this EDSAC thing so funny to me is that that computer is being rebuilt from scratch.

It's happening at the National Museum of Computing in England.

I got to meet one of the volunteers that was working on the project recently, and we got talking about memory.

The new EDSAC uses another form of memory because of health and safety concerns.

Click on What Else is Happening at the Convention to find details on the AMSAT UK Colloquium, RSGB committees, and special interest groups.

You'll also find information on Friday's activities, including the RSGB National Radio Center, the National Museum of Computing, and the Amateur Radio Quiz, which takes place in the evening.

If you have tickets for the gala dinner on Saturday and wish to reserve a table with friends, send your name and call sign details to radcom@rsgb.org.uk.

If you're unable to travel to the convention this year, the society will be streaming, uh, live a selection of lectures.

The original author is also interviewed in issue five of the Classic Adventure magazine, where he takes an in-depth look at the game.

And if you've been following the Adjunctive Computing podcast, which is itself the after-party to the excellent Advent of Computing History podcast, you may have heard that I gave the host, Sean Haas, a tour of the National Museum of Computing in early September.

And one of the topics we spoke about was his absolutely legendary plan to write an interactive text adventure called on the LGP-30.

I thought I was ambitious for targeting the PDP-8.

If you are a younger radio amateur, you'll find a series of youth-specific events, including a series of lightning talks, a youth POTA activation, and a youth dinner on the Saturday evening.

For radio amateurs looking to start the weekend festivities early, you will, you have a number of activities to take part in on Friday the 9th of October, from visiting the National Museum of Computing to joining an amateur radio pub-style quiz in the conference center bar in the evening.

You'll find details of these activities and more on the RSGB Convention pages.

Online ticketing closes at nine AM on Monday the 5th of October, so make sure you buy your ticket to guarantee your place.

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MakerHacks suggests going to the National Museum of Computing in the UK, and he puts some enticing photos of massive, big, old computers, and he's written a blog about their visit to it.

So thank you very much for that, MakerHacks.

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