Analog communication from Berlin’s Museum of Technology – Telegraph has always been a popular newspaper name!

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I’m not sure what exactly this exhibit in Berlin’s Museum of Technology was, but it looks like an oldfashioned control panel with a CRT monitor.

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The maybe funniest exhibit in Berlin’s Museum of Technology: an early digital toilet seat, apparently developed at the University of Aachen!

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Examples of early online gaming in Berlin’s Museum of Technology – there’s a Commodore VIC-20 modem in the upper right, a boxed copy of the surprisingly good Modem Wars and a Bildschirmtext-Module for the C64. The German BTX system aspired to be an early version of the internet, but it was never very popular due to the high costs and the limited offerings.

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Sadly, this Commodore 128D in Berlin’s Museum of Technology is not in original condition – it was painted green, which is a bit of a shame since an original beige version would have been more authentic. The C128 series was not only the successor of the C64, but also three computers in one: the new C128 with its enhanced BASIC, (mostly) compatible to the C64 and a Z80 CP/M machine. The C128D shown here also came with a built-in two-sided 1571 floppy drive and looked like a proper personal computer and not just a breadbox.

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A closeup of the golden Commodore 64 in Berlin’s Museum of Technology.

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The computer exhibition in Berlin’s Museum of Technology begins with a piece of my own childhood: this is a golden Commodore 64 built in 1986 celebrating the one millionth C64 sold in Germany! It is displayed with a box of floppy disks and two of the popular Competition Pro joysticks, but for some reason there’s no floppy drive. I still own several working C64, but I had never actually seen one of the golden ones, which are very valuable today.

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A mobile carrier pigeon station including its own darkroom in Berlin’s Museum of Technology.

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A Telegraph station from at least 100 years ago in Berlin’s Museum of Technology.

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Early public telephones in Berlin’s Museum of Technology.

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