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| EXHIBITIONS |
Here is a list of exhibitions and miscellaneous activities organized by the crew: (more pictures see here)
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| 25-Nov-2011 | Pol Eyschen (IIIe B2) and Liz Hertz (IIe B2) held the "RetroComputing" workshop prepared for the Science Festival once again, this time at the Computarium at the LCD, for 10 students and 3 teachers from Kijimadaira Junior High School (Nagano prefecture, Japan). Our Japanese guests have not only enjoyed the workshop itself, but have also been impressed by the large exhibition of computers at the Computarium and have, above all, greatly appreciated the excellent performance of Pol and Liz. |
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| 10-13 Nov 2011 |
Science Festival in Luxembourg, Musée National d'Histoire
Naturelle and Abbaye Neumünster. 11 Computarium members, 2 LCD students, one former LCD student and 4 members of the technical LCD staff made up the crew that managed our participation to this big event: Team 1: Baumann Claude, du Fays Claude, Eyschen Pol, Harles Geneviève, Heinz Ronny, Heirendt Colette, Kahn Nico, Krack Jean-Claude, Kramer Marcel, Massen Florence and Massen Francis Team 2: It was heavy work, paid off by a big attendance: about
120 pupils during the first 2 days with 10 workshops, and about 500 visitors
during the last 2 days open for the general public. The emulated games as
well as the real vintage machines gathered large crowds, and the enthusiasm
of the parents and elders was not smaller than that of the younger!.
Preliminary album! (64 pictures) |
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17 Jul 2011 |
13th Branebuurger Maart The Computarium participated to this cultural event (main organizer is our member Claude du Fays) with a small workshop/exhibition of mechanical devices (sliding rod calculators, pin wheel machines, printing adders) "Gerechens duerch d'Zäit" (Calculating through times). It was quite a success, with close to 140 visitors. Liz Hertz and Kim Lien Nguyen from the 2e B of the LCD and C. Heirendt, C. Baumann and F. Massen from the Computarium crew managed the event. See album. |
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| 04 May 2011 |
LCD Science Deeg at the Lycée Classique de
Diekirch. The Computarium participated with 3 workshops (rotary and sliding rod
calculators, chinese abacus) to this Science Fair organized for the children
of the last year of primary school (K12). What was special at this happening
was that our 10 LCD students were on their own to manage the workshops, what
they did with great enthusiasm and skill.
This Science Fair was the brain child of our member
Marcel Kramer, who was the main manager of the complicated organization. 15
workshops (among them 3 of the Computarium) covering all aspects of science
allowed easy hands-on experiences. P. Eyschen, G. Harles, M. Kramer,
J-Cl. Krack and F. Massen from the Computarium crew were on place, guiding
things discretely from the background. The LCD students were: |
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24 Sep 2010 |
Researcher's Night at Luxembourg City. The Computarium had a booth with 4 workshops during the Researcher's Night organized by the FNR (Fonds National de la Recherche) in Luxembourg City. On the prestigious Knuedler place a vast area hold 2 large tents with a lot of boots. Most were occupied by members or departments of the University of Luxembourg or foreign universities, the CRP's (Public Research Centers) or some private companies. We were the only secondary school among these folks. Our team of 10 had a big success, with an estimated 250 visitors for one or several of the workshops running under the title "Calculs Zéro Ampère" (translation: "calculating without electricity"): Abacus, Napier Bones, Sliding Rod Calculators and Rotary Calculators. Team members from left to right: Julien MEYER, Claude du FAYS, Anouk NEVEN, Pol EYSCHEN, Geneviève HARLES, Colette HEIRENDT, Marcel KRAMER, Francis MASSEN, Marc LAVINA. (Traditional helpers Ronny HEINZ and Florence MASSEN are not on this group picture). More pictures in this album! (most pictures by Colette Heirendt and Pol Eyschen) |
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| 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. |
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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! |
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| 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. |
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| 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)
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| 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.). |
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| 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. |
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| Jan. 2007 | Vintage microcomputers Exhibition of vintage personal computers, held in Steinfort for the 20th anniversary of the MCCL (Master Computer Club Luxembourg) . |
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| Apr. 2006 |
Calculs à
l'ancienne Atelier on mechanical calculators held at the LTEtt, a lycée in Ettelbruck, for their C-Days . |
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| Dec. 2005 | Calculatrices et Ordinateurs
d'Antan Subset of the exhibition held at the LTAM, a lycée in Luxembourg |
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| Nov. 2005 |
Calculatrices
et Ordinateurs d'Antan Same exhibition, heavily modified, held in a big mall at Luxembourg (Centre Commercial La Concorde) |
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| 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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