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Hello Ian and Paul Thanks for racking your brains there - unless I hear of any advances on these venerable examples, a couple of golden chocolatey balls are on their way to you. Personally, I loved the 'computer art' section in the Computing Then and Now gallery of the Science Museum. I remember it involved people in bodystockings, dancing earnestly to electronic noises. And I think a voiceover said 'computers can also be used in art'. Unfortunately, it was taken away some time ago (around 1993). Best wishes Sarah On 2 Apr 2007, at 21:16, Ian Simmons wrote: > Thanks Glenn, it wasn't the water rocket I had in mind, I was going > for oldest screen-based, and thinking of the wire-frame build a > rocket and see if you can get it into orbit game, which was still > around in the late 90s and may still lurk somewhere. > > IAN > > IAN SIMMONS > · Do you believe scientists have souls? (yes/no) > · Do you believe they might have souls but haven't found them yet? > (yes/no) > · Do you believe that scientists believe they have souls, > but are too embarrassed to talk about them with their colleagues? > (yes/no) > - Jeff Hoke - Museum of Lost Wonder > > Science Centre - www.life.org.uk > Forteana - www.forteantimes.com > Sound Reviews & Science Writing - www.nthposition.com > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Murphy Glenn" > <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:40 AM > Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Golden Balls > > > Game On has now moved on, sadly - but we do have Pong in our Secret > Life > of the Home gallery, and incredibly it's still popular with the > Playstation generation (who enjoy a good laugh at it, and seem > fascinated that this could ever have constituted entertainment) > > The Water Rocket (I presume that was the exhibit you were referring > to) > was in the original Launch Pad, but didn't move into the 1995 > incarnation of Launch Pad in the Wellcome Wing. We did use it in > Flight > Lab for a while until that closed about 3 years ago. But it was > binned/sold along with most of the other exhibits from that gallery. > > Interestingly, it's set to make a comeback, as there will be a water > rocket in the all-new Launch Pad, due to open in November this > year. So > in one way it's a contender for the oldest-surviving interactive. > But I > don't think we can claim it has had continuous use! > > Glenn @ The Science Museum > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: psci-com: on public engagement with science > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Simmons > Sent: 28 March 2007 19:48 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Golden Balls > > The Game-on exhibition, which I think is still on at the Sci Mus has a > working "Pong" game in it, which is about as early as it gets and some > even > earlier screen games that aren't actually useable by visitors, so > don't > count. Is there still the rocket launching game somewhere around > the Sci > Mus > too - it was in Launch Pad at least up to its Wellcome Wing move > and had > > been there since the first incarnation of the gallery (mid 80s) and I > have > an inkling I have seen it on another gallery there since, but I > could be > > hallucinating > > IAN > > IAN SIMMONS > * Do you believe scientists have souls? (yes/no) > * Do you believe they might have souls but haven't found them yet? > (yes/no) > * Do you believe that scientists believe they have souls, > but are too embarrassed to talk about them with their colleagues? > (yes/no) > - Jeff Hoke - Museum of Lost Wonder > > Science Centre - www.life.org.uk > Forteana - www.forteantimes.com > Sound Reviews & Science Writing - www.nthposition.com > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Angliss" > <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:07 AM > Subject: [PSCI-COM] Golden Balls > > >> Hello >> >> I hope this question doesn't seem completely off-topic - but I know > quite >> a few of the people on this list are into scientific interactives: >> >> We're always hearing about interactive science exhibits that are > breaking >> down. But what's the oldest hands-on science exhibit that's still > going >> strong? I think the Golden Ball in the Science Museum could be a > strong >> contender as I understand it's been there, in one guise or another, > since >> the Children's Gallery opened in the early 1930s. But do you know of >> anything more venerable? And what about the oldest screen-based >> interactive? The oldest computer games console was Computer Space > (1971) >> so I reckon there can't be anything much before that - or was there >> something lurking in the corner of a gallery with dots on a cathode > ray >> tube? >> >> Anyway, answers on a postcard please. I'm really looking for > exhibits >> that genuinely get a pounding, day in and day out, in a public >> space. > >> This is for a little commercial article I'm writing, so I have a > Golden >> Ball (well, a Golden Easter Egg) for the person who can come up with > the >> most convincing ancient interactive exhibit in either category. >> >> Sarah >> >> ********************************************************************* >> * >> 1. 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