I volunteer on an event called the Microsoft Intern Game (a weekend long puzzlehunt for MS interns over the summer) and we were fortunate enough to get to use the LCM for one of the locations.
The puzzle (write up here, https://interngame.microsoft.com/events/2013/floppy/overview... make sure to click the solution link for notes about the happenings at LCM) actually used some of the real computers (running a simple DOS program from a floppy disc) as opposed to just emulating it on newer hardware. It was an amazing experience that you would never get at another museum.
My favorite pic had nothing to do with our puzzle at all, but was just a computer control panel with a helpful label that said “knob”.
The puzzle (write up here, https://interngame.microsoft.com/events/2013/floppy/overview... make sure to click the solution link for notes about the happenings at LCM) actually used some of the real computers (running a simple DOS program from a floppy disc) as opposed to just emulating it on newer hardware. It was an amazing experience that you would never get at another museum.
My favorite pic had nothing to do with our puzzle at all, but was just a computer control panel with a helpful label that said “knob”.