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Where I live we have a big science museum[1]. Besides a real Cray you can sit on, it had some public experiments with TUIs done in Borland's TurboVision. I loved that as a kid in the late 80s and early 90s. For me it was how the future looked back then.

Over the decades I went to the museum often and the future turned into the past. It's only recently when the museum got a new director and a huge renovation when the old machines with the blue CRT monitors disappeared. I wonder what happened to them...

[1] https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en



> Besides a real Cray you can sit on

Yes! It's very surprising how small it was. Images back in the day gave the impression of a hulking monolith.




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