COMPUTARIUM LCD


EXHIBITIONS

Here is a list of exhibitions and miscellaneous activities organized by the crew: (more pictures see here)

DATE DESCRIPTION PHOTO
19 Jun 2010 Journée des Anciens du LCD
More than 200 former students of the Lycée classique de Diekirch met at the LCD.

The Computarium organized three mini-workshops (Napier Bones, rotary machines and sliding rod calculators) and commented guide tours.
22-23 May 2010 VINTAGE DAYS organized by the town of Diekirch. The Computarium showed its exhibition and held 6 workshops in the LCD: Napier Bones, printing adders, elctromechanical and rotary calculators, slide rules, abacus and sliding rod calculators. See album!
02 Feb 2010 Workshop TALENTA at the LCD, dept. of mathematics.
A group of 21 students from all ages participated in a workshop on slide rules (presented by Marc Lavina) and Napier Bones (presented by Geneviève Harles and Francis Massen). The workshop closed with a competition at various difficulty levels, involving calculations to be done with the slide-rule and the Napier bones.

16 May 2009 Workshop at Hall 1 of Luxinnovation and for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.
We were a crew of 9 persons (6 from Computarium: Baumann C., du Fays C., Krack J-Cl., Lanners C., Heirendt C., Massen F.), 2 former students of the LCD (Neven A., Meyer J.) and one actual student of the LCD (Ohles L.). Contrary to our uneasy expectations, this was rather a good success: we had many visitors from 10:30 to 18:30, among them many VIP's (like minister François Biltgen and M. Raymond Bausch, secretary general of the FNR). The "Abacus department" of Claude du Fays was running without interruption, and the Napier Bones and Sliding Rod Calculators also had many interested visitors. Most visitors stayed quite a lot of time, which is very unusual for a cultural event embedded in a consumer exhibition.
Click on album!
Photographers: Jean-Claude Krack (page 1) and Claude Baumann (page 2)



Picture shows youngest visitor being introduced to Napier bones calculation! (photo: JCl. Krack)

 

Jun 14-Jul 04,2008 Pico-Expo in two windows of the Syndicat d'Initiative de Diekirch.
Left window holds some mechanical devices (including the beautiful Tim Unitas at the bottom), right portables (Kaypro4 and Epson HX20) and some pocket calculators (HP35, TI59, Sinclair Cambridge Scientific etc.).


Sep 22-23, 2007 Cirque des Sciences
Workshop "Calculs à l'ancienne"
The Cirque des Sciences was a very big organisation held for the event "Luxembourg, cultural capital of Europe, 2007" at the breathtaking  Neumünster site in Luxembourg. Our workshop (there were many others) showed old calculating devices, from Napier bones, slide rules, abaci, sliding and printing adders to rotary calculators and heavy electromechanical machinery.
Preliminary album ( Photos F. Massen) and definitive album (photos J. Mootz).

A slide show with pictures of all the other workshops can be found here

Jan. 2007 Vintage microcomputers
Exhibition of vintage personal computers, held in Steinfort for the 20th anniversary of the MCCL (Master Computer Club Luxembourg) .
Apr. 2006 Calculs à l'ancienne
Atelier on mechanical calculators held at the LTEtt, a lycée in Ettelbruck, for their C-Days .
Dec. 2005 Calculatrices et Ordinateurs d'Antan
Subset of the exhibition held at the LTAM, a lycée in Luxembourg
Nov. 2005 Calculatrices et Ordinateurs d'Antan
Same exhibition, heavily modified, held in a big mall at Luxembourg (Centre Commercial La Concorde)
May-July 2005 Calculatrices et Ordinateurs d'Antan
This was the first exhibition made for the 175th anniversary of the LCD; held at Diekirch in the LCD

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