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
>
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> 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
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>
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> 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
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>> 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
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