Chris from the CS Club, playing Centipede on an Atari 800XL.
One of the original portable computers.
Another portable computer; two 5.25" floppy drives and a tiny screen!
An IBM portable.
Another portable.
A portable with an LCD screen.
An IBM portable with two 3.5" drives and an LCD screen.
Michael Wenk and Jonathan Stickle from LUGOD created a collection of
Knoppix discs (and some GNUWinII) that we handed out. Almost all of them
were taken!
We also had flyers for our upcoming talks by Oracle and IBM.
Mike Simons played Frozen Bubble during the lulls.
Bill Kendrick from LUGOD lent his two Atari Lynx handhelds to the museum.
An Atari 800 running Joust.
A cool color NeXT workstation.
An Apple II running a "Hello World" program in BASIC.
An Apple Macintosh SE getting its BSD Unix installation upgraded!!!
Although it was pouring outside, quite a few people came to Picnic Day.
The mid-afternoon was busiest for us.
Parents reminisced at the old hardware, while kids went for the video games.
Professor Richard Walters from the UCD CS department talks with a group of
visitors.
Closest to farthest: Altairs, TRS80, Apple II, IBM PC XT and Mac SE.
Seen on the Altair, a photo showing where the museum will be on display in
EUII's lobby.
Some kids trying out the Lynxes.
More kids, figuring out Mario Bros. (not 'Super') on the Atari XL.
Cordell Newmiller of LUGOD playing the first 3D video game:
Star Raiders. (From 1979!)
Chris from the CS club was addicted to Joust.
CS club president Kevin Murakoshi and Jeff Newmiller from LUGOD play the
oldest game in the room: Go
This fellow hacked BASIC on the Apple II.
Mike Simons from LUGOD, answering questions about Linux.
Mike answering more questions.
A better 'Hello World.' (It bounced around the screen.)
The kids began noticing Frozen Bubble and Tux Paint on LUGOD's Linux box.
Mike Simons borrowed a PC from the CS club to demonstrate Knoppix,
a version of Linux that runs directly off of a bootable CD.
The Apple II gets more attention...
...Probably because of its set of paddles!
Mike gets Knoppix started.
By the end of the day, Pong had been written for the Apple II!