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Date Posted: 20:04:29 09/06/05 Tue
Author: David
Subject: My childhood rushes back... Mathematica alive in Boston!

I grew up in Culver City, just a stones's throw from the MSI, took summer science workshop classes there in the late 60's (I was born the same year as Mathematica) and when I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980 the MSI just became another fading memory.

Until today. Took the kids to the Museum of Science here in Boston and had an eerie sensation as I approaced this exhibit called ... Mathematica. Was it... could it be? Yes! With the same layouts, the same diplay boards (showing a bit of their age) it seemed smaller and research told me it was the traveling version of the exhibition. My girls loved it as much as I did when I was their ages and now I'm trying to reconcile a flood of memories about Mathematica, the MSI and the whole design feel of the 60's and how uniquely distint it still is -- as opposed to how no one's really going to look back and say "Wow, that has a really early 2000's feel to it."

Aside from the brochure, was there ever a Mathematica book proiduced? I'm having a fuzzy memory about that but I'm coming up short.

Now if I could only have the Helms Bakery truck rool into my neighborhood just like it used to before it was parked in the lower level, just below where my third place-winning entry for the Dental Health Association poster contest entry was displayed ("Operation Applebrush!")

Thanks for holding the MSI memory alive.

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Re: My childhood rushes back... Mathematica alive in Boston! -- William, 20:30:24 09/06/05 Tue