dear FOSDEM visitors

if you plan to come to FOSDEM (very soon now) and are still looking for interesting & computer related things to do,

you can consider visiting NAM-IP, a recent computer museum near Namur (about 50km South of Brussels)
NAM stands for "Numerical Artifact Museum" but is close to name of the hosting city

featuring a rare Hollerith tabulator (1890), Bull mecanography, mainframes from the 60's (temporary exposition) and computer evolution until now
warning for us, software guys: no historical software running in the current exhibitions (some mecanography demo possible though)

there are also some artefacts related to Multics

 

website is only French and Dutch but English booklets are available with QR code scanning

guided tours may also be organised (contact animation@nam-ip.be or me to see if possible)

I also plan to attend FOSDEM (the history track among others ;--)

Happy FOSDEM for those attending (physically or remotely) !
Christophe