Powerhouse Museum Discovery Centre
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2023
- Metrology and computers in the Powerhouse Museum Discovery Centre in Castle Hill
If you find my videos useful you may consider supporting the EEVblog on Patreon: / eevblog
Web Site: www.eevblog.com
Main Channel: / eevblog
EEVdiscover: / eevdiscover
AliExpress Affiliate: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/c2LRpe8g
Buy anything through that link and Dave gets a commission at no cost to you.
T-Shirts: teespring.com/stores/eevblog
#ElectronicsCreators #Museum 
Наука
My goodness a proper museum like they should be! It's not spoiled by marketing goons with primary colours and immersive AV displays. Many of those "ground breaking" AV displays put into UK museums 20 years ago during the great dumb down are now museum prices them selves. A few executives and consultants made a fortune, so that was nice for them.
Yeah, this is mostly a working, restoration and storage museum with a small public warehouse presentation space.
@@EEVblog2
Dave you make me feel old, I used those old calibration equipment.😢
Oh man, when your childhood toys are literally museum pieces!
🙄 Don’t. You confirmed what I was thinking 🥲
They have an iPhone 4 on display.
That Sony 8 mm video camera near the end is the exact same one my family used to record our childhood, now it's in a museum. I'm not even forty.
The presentation in that place is amazing, I could spend days absorbing every detail. And yup, Mrs. EEVBlog still doesn't appreciate being used as pervert bait for the channel.
Hi Mrs. EEVBlog 👋
An amazing collection, and a perfect choice for the thumbnail!
That vintage calculator is very very similar to my Texas Instruments TI-57. I love it, and it's red 7-segment mini display. It's mint, with its leather pouch. It was given to me by my Dad. He is my biggest influence and gave me my drive to get into electronics. He was always at his desk soldering on something or tuning. He used to work for TI in his youth in Amarillo Texas. I long way from his hometown of Melbourne. He also worked for Microsoft, the Victorian Parks and Forestry service for Radio Communications, and even NASA. He said the specifications for soldering at NASA were very strict. I have a heap of old radio and electronics gear from the 1980s. I love it!
Beautiful place.I could spend hours there. Nice to see Mrs EEVBlog! :)
Yeah, she looked happy to be on camera - not!
@@2Sorts LOL :)
I’d love to spend a day nosing around there though, simply because I remember some of it being used as standard practice. God I’m getting old. (I’ve just turned 54 by the way)
Seems that things progress much faster now, rendering equipment redundant so much more quickly.
@@2Sorts So true. :) We can shake hands, I'm 54 too :)
Dave if you are ever in the us of a, near Pittsburgh pa there is a large scale systems museum in new Kensington pa. It is really cool you should check it out of you are near by.
I tried to post a link but RUclips wouldn't let me. Large scale systems museum in new Kensington pa. Thanks for the videos!
Dave, clickbait thumbnail, come on...
Whoooooooooa! Absolutely Fran-tastically gorgeous indeed.
2:50 you missed it, it's an encabulator ;)
5:29 a platen printing press, old style... we had a bunch of them when I worked for the Book Art Museum.
Makes me wish the test gear was demonstrated while working. Nothing better than watching crisp clean waveforms on a 70 year old scope!
I sometimes did type casting demonstrations on a computer-controlled Monotype composition caster while at the museum. Visitors were mighty impressed.
Wow what a fun place, thanks for taking us along.
In times past, instrumentation was also artwork. Fascinating place.
I love the powerhouse museum and I think it's called Questacon those are my favourite memories of childhood, it pleases me to see that the powerhouse hasn't been trashed like some other museums I treasured.
Well they did try to sell the main Powerhouse museum in the city to apartment developers.
Regarding the Apple 1. It would be a matter of protection from the admittidly low light. Plastics, art works, textiles, photographs, paper, etc. are displayed at 50 lux. Even so, the damage builds over time. There's also a matter of space. Only 1% of objects were on display at the 3 Melbourne Museum sites when I was working there.
THAT THUMBNAIL MADE ME CLICK
I saw the Apple 1, as well as an Enigma and a Xerox Alto at the Powerhouse Museum in 2016. So much cool stuff!
Rockwell AIM65 6502 8-bit computer with thermal printer. Programmed in assembler but had a BASIC mode. Used them in college around 1985
4:47 Yup, that's a Dulmont Magnum and the other computer is a complete ZX80, not just the top shell.
why this thumbnail Dave? 😂
Because that's a Kylie Minogue look-a-like.
Didn't know this was a thing, neat. Thanks, will check it out
I still use some have some of that stuff. We are what’s left of Victoria’s state electricity commission laboratory
I haven't been there since I was about 8 years old.
It's part of the reason I got into electronics.
Wow very cool!
Fond memories of the Compaq Portable III and late night sessions of Star Control, Starflight, Sim City, and many more on that warm orange plasma screen.
What a cool place!
Nice place. If you ever vistit Berlin, Germany I would recommend to visit the Museum of Technology. It's really intersting place.
Oh boy, just played snap on the slide rule, calculator and Sinclair ZX80 and similar beam engine in the engineering display. Maybe I should give guided tours of my 'box' room, what we call the smallest bedroom in the house, here in the UK!!!
My 1st oscilloscope was a 1MHz dual beam Tektronix 502A.
Dave, are there any of Mr. Pete's steam engines in there?
So much in there I used at Uni!
Kool exhibit. Dave, do you recall who the manufacturer of the Ozone tester was?
Cool
Is that the same place you went to during that makers fair years ago? I seem to remember that having the Apple 1.
NO, that's the bigger original museum in the city. This is the storage facility in Castle Hill
4:43 I have 2 of those joysticks I'm turning into Games Master Golden Joysticks :) as that's what they used.
Did you ever find the Apple 1?
It's not on display according to their website.
Nopp, must be back at the museum in the city.
nice thumbnail lol
Reverting stuff perhaps its the only exhibition outta Canberra that needs to go back to Canberra, its not good being under plated glass!! these specimens they need to be played again with, perhaps this free might turn to a freemium because if its just the eevblog family in the exhibition area i don't think this place will be free or existing. At least put this next to one of the many Canberra Museums and i pop in there to kill a Saturday afternoon. thx for the tour.
I love the way you say the United States of AMERICA.
Kinda sad that some of us retro-computer collectors have larger and more complete "relics" in our collections.
Commodore 64!
Did you see the 1900s EV? Was an eye-opener to know that EVs were a thing way before Tesla and actually fought ICE vehicles for dominance and lost for more than a century, before staging the mother of all comebacks!
Yeah, EV's outsold ICE cards for something like a decade at one point.
Hope you asked for a refund since the Apple 1 wasn't on display.
OI Dave...... ur just stalking ya mrs cos shes HOT!
he is punching above his weight !
I hope she didnt get vaccinated!
Could be a tattoo.
Knife fight injury. You should see the other guy.
@@EEVblog2 Sounds about right. Those Australian Sheila's can fight like any man if provoked 😅
Seriously!... I spend 12-14hrs a day fixing laptops n phone's at the component level whilst having over 40yrs experience in the field from very old valve TV's n Radios from the 30's to current crap when I lock my doors I turn off n it beer time!, this is sort of interesting but you be careful Dave or your jocks are gonna get wet spot!... Neer sort of interesting!