Category Archives: Nostalgia

Meigs Field

Posted on 2022-11-23 by M. Eric Carr

Virtual aviators — KCGX Meigs is back (in FS2020)! Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Digital, Flight Simulator, Games, Nostalgia | Tagged Chicago, flight, Flight Simulator, FS2020, KCGX, Meigs, Meigs Field, MSFS | Leave a comment

Mini-Museum of Computing History

Posted on 2022-10-26 by M. Eric Carr

Welcome page for the Mini Museum of Computing History, in Drexel University’s ELS Department. Continue reading →

Posted in Drexel, Mini Museum, Nostalgia | Tagged card punch, computing, computing history, history, history of computing, mini museum, morse code, Morse relay, museum, piano roll, player piano, punched card, slide rule, telegraph, telegraphy | Leave a comment

Mini Museum: Punched Cards

Posted on 2022-09-26 by M. Eric Carr

Data was once stored on punched cards, which allowed for direct manual data entry. Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Digital, Mini Museum, Nostalgia | Tagged data entry, IBM, mini museum, punched card, punched cards, vintage | Leave a comment

Mini Museum: Slide Rule

Posted on 2022-09-06 by M. Eric Carr

Slide rules — analog mechanical calculators — helped build the modern world, three sig figs or so at a time. Continue reading →

Posted in Lore, Math, Mechanical, Mini Museum, Nostalgia, Tools | Tagged analog, analog calculator, calculator, E6B, logarithm, significant figures, slide rule | Leave a comment

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