On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

Dan Roganti suggests a physics demonstration tool like

http://powdertoy.co.uk/

might be connected to a vintage computing demostration, to provide "physics" results from vintage computations or vintage control. That sounds plausible to me.

It satisfies Dan's goals of presenting early computing means to generate mathematical solutions on critical problems of the day. And it satisfies visual presentation goals of making those cryptic numeric and physics code, accessible to people without that training.

For my techie interests, I'd be curious about how to make the two work together. A modern computing box or tablet, running this program with a Lua API – whatever that is - connected to some vintage box through likely-simple serial-hardware protocols? Can they live together? It's "the odd couple"! ;)

Herb

​ohh, that's an idea I haven't looked into yet with this software. I merely offered this as a supplement to allow one to have a visual demonstration Something independent sitting alongside the actual computer hardware In addition, if i had a minicomputer, a plotter would be a useful peripheral to plot data But your idea would be even more interesting if available I haven't seen a method yet on this to allow one to input data from an external source​ But I like to look into this some more too, there might be some answers on their forum Dan