With the big Philbrick analog computer, I tell people how it's a bespoke system used as a teaching tool in the MIT mechanical engineering department from 1958-1970. The Bendiz G-15 was used in a civil engineering firm in the Baltimore area, the Univac was used at the Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab for developing software on the shipboard computers. I'm pretty sure this is covered in the info tablet kiosk for that part of the museum. :) On Nov 26, 2017 10:34 PM, "Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic" < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I'll jump in since I do have some interest in the education side though this isn't one of my better areas of expertise. Others will probably correct.
Thanks for the for the explanation David! Let's start with the most common question that everyone asks: "How was this computer used?", "What could you do with this computer?", "What was it capable of doing?".