Jul 24, 2006

Museum Monday #24


Monday. A day with a habit of repeating itself on a (rather annoying) weekly basis. Silly thing, but one can only hope its oppressive imperium will come to an end. Preferably to a bloody end. After all, that's what Museum Monday is all about. That and (mostly) game related virtual museums, that is. Of course.

Museum Monday #24 in particular is about a virtual and quite real/physical museum hybrid, the aptly named PC Museum, found both here and in Germany. Its exhibits are admittedly impressive, ranging from CRAY supercomputers and IBM transistors from the 50s, to standard 80s home computers and a variety of portable oddities.

Intel's 8008

Oh, and if your German happens to be adequate (ausreichend), I would also suggest having a look at The Dot Eaters. It's another fine 8bit games webmuseum.



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25 comments:

  1. Try finding where to put your new RAM in that...

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  2. Everything can be done... Now, where's my RAM fitting hammer?

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  3. I just used my Dad...

    ...to hell if I'm getting an electric shock!

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  4. Do I really need Ram if I had that? *Knows the answer is yes but refuses to accept it anyone.*

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  5. Tom? What are you doing there? Your dadd is definitely not a hammer. Unless of course he supports the Hammers, I guess...

    Gamer C, yes, you really do need the RAM, and if you don't mind me saying so, you could generally use a decent upgrade ...

    :)

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  6. You know, I thought I was the only one thinking Tom used his dad as a hammer. Apparently, I misread his sentence.

    I'm thinking about updating my ram soon Gnome. I'm choosing between updating my PC or getting a 360 an DS Lite. The latter seems to be winning for now but I may end doing a little of both.

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  7. Well if it's games only you're interested in, I'd say that the DS/Xbox combo is the better choice. If on the other hand you just need a minor upgrade, a decent gfx card and a another 512mb of RAM should be cheaper and quite an upgrade... Then again you might want to run Oblivion in full detail, or use 3dstudio.

    Still, what kind of PC are we talking about?

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  8. another great museum monday Mr.Gnome
    (bows to the diminutive figure)

    I do remember opening the back of my sturdy commodore calculator once....

    scared the freaking life out of me, opening the back of my computer.....?
    akin to bungy jumping without a rope

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  9. Same feelings here, but gradually I got used to it... Now I simply open things up instead of bungy-jumping...

    Good for the heart they tell me.

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  10. though i would like to try vampire and Sin and oblivion mods, I can wait a year or so....... for a change of machine..... besides the back of my computer has a sign saying

    Do Not Open

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  11. I'd ignore it... PCs are meant to be opened and fiddled with.. Says so in every encyclopaedia I've searched...

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  12. i dunno the writing is in red..... and has a skeleton on it...... are you sure......

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  13. Yes, quite. Just cast a detect evil spell to be on the safe side. One can never be sure of the ways of the devil Mr. elderly dear...

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  14. (heeds gnomes warning, casts spell.....)

    bloody hell my cigarette packet is glowing..........

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  15. Spell sideffect or did you just come back from Chernobyl?

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  16. at the rate i smoke, ill probably never have to visit Chernobyl... anyway it was a pure spell, it wouldn't have rea....

    wait bloody typical..... made in Ireland........ geez i shoulda known... could i borrow a detect evil from you .... ill pay you back next week......

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  17. Sure sure, have this scroll (of typical/traditional greek crafting quality) for free... Oh, and I'm sure I smoke more, despite being in a cutting it down face...

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  18. ah you've entered the 15 years cutting down phase..... (takes scroll) thanks pal..... (reads scroll aloud.......)
    back of computer falls off

    bloody hell the greeks make great scrolls......

    now what do i do?

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  19. I guess you can look around, see the nice chipsets, gawk at the graphics card, close it again and go to bed...

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  20. it's very dark in there...... i can see wires and theres a really really pretty light.......

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  21. Just stay away from the light and you'll be fine. After all, only Frodo is supposed to come to the light.

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  22. okay...... okay im inside the computer now now ow ow

    theres a slight echo cho co o

    but im staying away from the light ight ite ite

    now what? at t t

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  23. Now "look at motherboard", "pick up loose chip", "examine cheap", find yourself a proper walkthrough...

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  24. your breaking up gnome..... mother it's got an apron on it.... and she dosen't look the slightest bit bored.......

    Gnome the lights blinking.....

    (checks walkthrough......... turns left at the capacitor....)

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