I visited the museum during the Vintage Computer Festival, and so really only visited the radio and computing history exhibits as well as the maker space. Nonetheless, I was thoroughly impressed.
The radio history museum was spectacularly organized and displayed, with many examples of technologies gone...
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I visited the museum during the Vintage Computer Festival, and so really only visited the radio and computing history exhibits as well as the maker space. Nonetheless, I was thoroughly impressed.
The radio history museum was spectacularly organized and displayed, with many examples of technologies gone by. A number of exhibit items were working and operable by guests, including several interactive exhibits by an amateur radio club such as a working telegraph line with sounder and keys. A side room contained a Tesla coil, a hand generator which could be switched to power either an LED or incandescent light for efficiency comparison, some static electricity experiments, and other interactive items.
The computer museum was a wonder, including rare items such as an Apple I as well as many unique, interesting, or obscure computers. Several were operational, including a PDP-8 and a UNIVAC 1219. Volunteers demonstrated the operation of the UNIVAC and some analog computers while we were there. One of the volunteers had worked on one of the analog computer models for many years and was s wealth of information on its operation and capabilities.