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I dunno what I expect from a museum funded by a trust created by a computer corporation, but I'd love to see more serious engagement with the political forces acting on communication technology in the beautifully presented "History of the Future - A Journey Through the HNF" book.
It acknowledges that writing came about to track the surpluses created by an organised farming society in a fertile region and the impact that moveable type had on propagating the ideas of the Reformation, but is silent on the political imperatives pushing the creation of mass media and computation. A bit of Problematisation 101 wouldn't go amiss here. Who benefits? Who is harmed?
Still, I very much appreciate the long view taken by the museum, in the drawing together of representation systems for text and numbers, mechanised systems for computation and text reproduction, communications and computation, and the evolution of clerical work.
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Checking out the hastag #hnfpb on Mastodon that #HeinzNixdorfMuseumForum suggest you use, I find the wonderful virtual #ICT1301 #mainframe at https://ict1301.virtualcolossus.co.uk/ by @virtualcolossus.
The computer was a fully transistorised 48-bit word machine with core memory and drum backing store: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICT_1301
(Image in the public domain: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ICT_1301_Gothenburg_1962.jpg#mw-jump-to-license)
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Lustigstes 'Exponat' an einer Feedback Wand im Computermuseum:
"Wenn ich ehrlich bin, habe ich hier nichts gecheckt und das ist echt fies für die die nicht die hellste Kerze auf der Torte sind!" 😅
#memepotential #hnfpb #hnf -
Krasse Sonderausstellung fanden wir im 3. OG von dem Künstler Stanza, der aus Computerbauteilen auf 110qm eine 'Stadt gebaut' hat.
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Sogar @digitalcourage 'is mentioned'...
'Daten besser Schützen?
Der Bielefelder Verein Digitalcourage verleiht seit dem Jahr 2000 die BigBrotherAwards. Ausgezeichnet werden Unternehmen, Organisationen und Privatpersonen, die aus Sicht des Vereins "die Privatsphäre von Menschen nachhaltig beeinträchtigen oder persönliche Daten Dritten zugänglich machen". So bringen die Bielefelder das Thema Datenschutz erfolgreich auf die politische Agenda.' -
Gestern kleiner Besuch ins weltgrößte Computer Museum, dem Heinz Nixdorf Forum in Paderborn. Schön war's.
Von Schriftzeichen, Großcomputern, über Smartphones und Verschlüsselung gab es viel zu sehen und zu lernen.
#Paderborn #hnfpb #HNF #Museum #CCC -
After months of work, Virtual Lorenz SZ 3D is now live on our website for you to use for free! Learn how to send messages on a real German cipher machine with more settings than even Enigma. Try it now: https://lorenz.virtualcolossus.co.uk
#VirtualLorenz3D #tnmoc #bletchleypark #hnfpb #gchq