School Preparation for Visiting a Computer Museum
Looking for suggestions of Movies/YouTubes/Articles/Books to prepare high school students for a visit to our computer museum(s) I'll start with a few of my favorites, and looking for more suggestions 1) Hidden Figures (book and movie) 2) Steve Jobs (book and movie) 3) Triumph of the Nerds ... N) War Games Bob Roswell broswell@syssrc.com 410-771-5544 ext 4336 https://museum.syssrc.com
Soul of a New Machine On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 3:24 PM rar via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Looking for suggestions of Movies/YouTubes/Articles/Books to prepare high school students for a visit to our computer museum(s)
I'll start with a few of my favorites, and looking for more suggestions 1) Hidden Figures (book and movie) 2) Steve Jobs (book and movie) 3) Triumph of the Nerds ... N) War Games
Bob Roswell broswell@syssrc.com 410-771-5544 ext 4336
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, rar via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Looking for suggestions of Movies/YouTubes/Articles/Books to prepare high school students for a visit to our computer museum(s)
I'll start with a few of my favorites, and looking for more suggestions 1) Hidden Figures (book and movie) 2) Steve Jobs (book and movie) 3) Triumph of the Nerds ... N) War Games
"Hackers", by Steven Levy Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
Dealers Of Lightening On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 5:05 PM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, rar via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Looking for suggestions of Movies/YouTubes/Articles/Books to prepare high school students for a visit to our computer museum(s)
I'll start with a few of my favorites, and looking for more suggestions 1) Hidden Figures (book and movie) 2) Steve Jobs (book and movie) 3) Triumph of the Nerds ... N) War Games
"Hackers", by Steven Levy
Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation
On 12/23/19 2:05 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, rar via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Looking for suggestions of Movies/YouTubes/Articles/Books to prepare high school students for a visit to our computer museum(s)
I'll start with a few of my favorites, and looking for more suggestions 1) Hidden Figures (book and movie) 2) Steve Jobs (book and movie) 3) Triumph of the Nerds ... N) War Games
"Hackers", by Steven Levy
"Sneakers" -- A great movie really about the hacking spirit. "Soul of a New Machine" -- Follows the developement of DG machines, but it really a very human story about engineering and triumph. Holds up well, good read. "The Hacker Crackdown": https://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html Bell Labs Homdel Computing Center Training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYiktO0D64 ^ This one is great for people who do any kind of development work as it kind of follows a program being developed through the computing center.
Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
We sell Hackers at the shop, along with a few of the photo survey/coffee table books, Ceruzzi's "A History of Modern Computing", David Greelish's "Historically Brewed:, and Nadeau's "Collectible Microcomputers". The biggest seller is Historically Brewed, Hackers, and A History of Modern Computing. All three target a different audience but together they are a nice collection of books that cover the spectrum. We'd sell Evan's portables book if he fronted a few copies :-) Bill On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 3:24 PM rar via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Looking for suggestions of Movies/YouTubes/Articles/Books to prepare high school students for a visit to our computer museum(s)
I'll start with a few of my favorites, and looking for more suggestions 1) Hidden Figures (book and movie) 2) Steve Jobs (book and movie) 3) Triumph of the Nerds ... N) War Games
Bob Roswell broswell@syssrc.com 410-771-5544 ext 4336
HI Bob, Of course, you'll want to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game Especially with the Enigma tie in. With that said, are you compiling this list to advise high school teachers? As a high school teacher myself, the suggestions so far are a bit overwhelming and might be what we call "not school appropriate". War Games, for example, is PG from a time when PG 13 wasn't yet a thing and, as such, there is some coloful language. Some schools don't care, others do. And movies take up typically at least 2 periods to show. Often a last (sometimes a first) resort for substitute teachers, but usually not something that is a go to for a teacher to prepare for a field trip. "Hackers" by Steven Levy is a great book, but I don't think teachers are going assign that book (or the Steve Jobs book) just to prepare for the visit. Very long and (if I remember correctly) a bit risque for the average high school classroom. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your request, though. Best wishes, -Adam On 12/23/2019 3:24 PM, rar via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Looking for suggestions of Movies/YouTubes/Articles/Books to prepare high school students for a visit to our computer museum(s)
I'll start with a few of my favorites, and looking for more suggestions 1) Hidden Figures (book and movie) 2) Steve Jobs (book and movie) 3) Triumph of the Nerds ... N) War Games
Bob Roswell broswell@syssrc.com 410-771-5544 ext 4336
Thanks for everyone's comments. In this case the kids are from a private school in DC. They have an intensive learning week where the kids take a break from their regular studies and have various outside and inside activities. The teacher asked for movie recommendations. I put War Games at the bottom (because I loved it, and have Imsai computers on display) Bob -----Original Message----- From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@swerlin.com> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 8:56 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: rar <rar@syssrc.com> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [vcf-midatlantic] School Preparation for Visiting a Computer Museum HI Bob, Of course, you'll want to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game Especially with the Enigma tie in. With that said, are you compiling this list to advise high school teachers? As a high school teacher myself, the suggestions so far are a bit overwhelming and might be what we call "not school appropriate". War Games, for example, is PG from a time when PG 13 wasn't yet a thing and, as such, there is some coloful language. Some schools don't care, others do. And movies take up typically at least 2 periods to show. Often a last (sometimes a first) resort for substitute teachers, but usually not something that is a go to for a teacher to prepare for a field trip. "Hackers" by Steven Levy is a great book, but I don't think teachers are going assign that book (or the Steve Jobs book) just to prepare for the visit. Very long and (if I remember correctly) a bit risque for the average high school classroom. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your request, though. Best wishes, -Adam On 12/23/2019 3:24 PM, rar via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Looking for suggestions of Movies/YouTubes/Articles/Books to prepare high school students for a visit to our computer museum(s)
I'll start with a few of my favorites, and looking for more suggestions 1) Hidden Figures (book and movie) 2) Steve Jobs (book and movie) 3) Triumph of the Nerds ... N) War Games
Bob Roswell broswell@syssrc.com 410-771-5544 ext 4336
I would definately show the The mother of all demos. It really puts everything in perspective for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
On Dec 23, 2019, at 3:24 PM, rar via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Looking for suggestions of Movies/YouTubes/Articles/Books to prepare high school students for a visit to our computer museum(s)
I'll start with a few of my favorites, and looking for more suggestions 1) Hidden Figures (book and movie) 2) Steve Jobs (book and movie) 3) Triumph of the Nerds ... N) War Games
Bob Roswell broswell@syssrc.com 410-771-5544 ext 4336
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