This week I had the pleasure of visiting The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. This is a small, charming museum filled with all sorts of old computers that you can play with. Finally, I was able to realise my dream of touching a Commodore 64 - hooray!
The building itself is an unassuming and old fashion one with a strange, industrial yellow roof. I thought something about this felt perfect for the house of all the Amstrads and Amigas. There's something about the design of the building that seems just right. I also really enjoy the window decals of a robot enjoying the games inside. She's just like me.
There were tons of interesting things in here - they had prototypes of the ZX Spectrum and ZX81, both designed in Cambridge, and some very good signage.
One of my favourite things was this gorgeous diorama of the environment in Creatures. Look at it... majestic. And they have the actual game on the floor, where it belongs.
There's quite a focus on computer games throughout the museum (they even had a PlayStation 2 with playable EyeToy plugged in, so I played the window-washing minigame and remembered how deeply horrible it actually was to control - delightful), but they also have a 1970s office room set up, with an ASCII drawing of a Womble on the wall (it was Tobermory), and this fabulous Bisto mug (which, as we can clearly see, is not from the 1970s).
Really good stuff. I love all the computers.
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