Pictures from Ian and Kat's Digital Camera: Toys from the 1998 Hackers Conference
Pictures from Ian and Kat's Digital Camera: Toys from the 1998 Hackers Conference
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Here are pictures of some of the cool toys that were in the demo room
at the 1998 Hackers Conference. (That's Hackers as in the
book by Steven Levy, not as in "people who break into
computer systems".)
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- A real live (and mostly working) Enigma machine.
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- Lego Mindstorm. Build and program robots out of Lego. Way cool.
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- More Lego Mindstorm.
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- More Lego Mindstorm, including the IR transceiver hooked up to the laptop
computer.
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- Ferrite core memory from the PDP-8. (That's why it's called a "core dump",
BTW).
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- A working PDP-8 (I even learned how to toggle in code!).
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Ian Goldberg,
ian@paip.net.
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