The National Museum Of Computing Visit 5
(Written October 10th, 2008 Declassified January 23rd, 2009)
Yet another good visit today at TNMOC, this time I got to meet alot more of the people involved in the museum and yet again I able to uncover more fascinating facts about machines and even more incredible noises that they make.
Again I spent time with the Elliot 803, but this time I was with John Sinclair who is extremely knowledgable about the machine and showed me a trick to send specific functions into the memory using a “double 5″ technique, overiding the normal mode and send fuctions straight in which trigger different notes, which was fantastic.
There was creed teleprinter and another switched on which make quite a racket which I just had to hear, and the humm of a PDP8 and a Power MAC 5500/275 made a high pitch squeaky noise, there was also a DEC DecMate III which gave off another humm altogether.
Lots of fascinating noises, I really must remember to take some cassette tapes and an AM Radio next time I go.
