Nexon Computer Museum on Jeju Island, Korea
Hello. The site had two articles describing the coolest IT museums in the world. Part 1 and Part 2 , but the museum, about which I want to tell, was not included in this list. One of the reasons, perhaps, is that it is very difficult to get to him.
So, welcome, Nexon Computer Museum .
')
The title photo is not mine, taken here , since I arrived in the morning and the sun was shining just in the face.
Jeju Island is located southwest of mainland Korea. Everything speaks about its volcanic origin, including the decoration of the streets, which is made of volcanic rock.
Under the spoiler, some travel notes and some information about the island itself, who are not interested - you can skip
The museum opened on July 27, 2013, and last week celebrated its third anniversary. As the name implies, it contains his company Nexon , known primarily by the fact that it released the first online MMORPG back in 1996. The museum is located in a separate 4-storey building with a total area of about 2500 square meters. The museum is open from 10 to 18 all days except Monday. The entrance ticket costs 8,000 KRW (about $ 7.5).
On the ground floor there is a hall that tells the general history of computer technology. The photo was made on the phone, the lighting in the halls is not very bright, so I strongly ask you not to judge.
Prototype computer mouse
IBM Electronic Typewriter 1959
This is a miracle of technology - also a typewriter IBM WheelWriter 70 Series II 1988 year
The undoubted pride of the museum is the Apple I motherboard. This is the same fee that was sold at Sotheby's auction under lot number 57 at auction on July 15, 2012 for $ 374,500 .
Steve Wozniak autographed the replica of the wooden case of the Apple I during his visit to the island.
photo source
photo source
I, however, also have an artifact signed by Woz.
The evolution of storage media is presented in a rather interesting way:
As well as graphics both on consoles and on personal computers:
CGA - Color Graphic Adapter, IBM, 1982
HGC - Hercules Graphic Card, 1984
Intel 4004 processor , the rest did not take pictures, as usual:
The evolution of computer sound:
An interactive option that offers to listen to the same melody on different devices from PC Speaker to Roland :
UPD: How it all sounds, you can listen here
Another cool implementation - you can listen to the melodies from different games through these hoses. The name of the game is signed on handset:
Further a series of photos of various retro computers:
Altair 8800, 1975
Apple 2 and Tandy RadioShack 1977 TRS-80
Legendary Commodore PET in All-Metal Case
Equally Known IBM PC 5150
IBM's first laptop, PC Convertible 5140 and Macintosh Portable
Another interesting copy - Samsung SPC-5900RT, 1995
Goldstar Famicom FC-100D, 1982
National MSX CF2000
Graphic station Silicon Graphics O2, 1996, recently got the same, it will be necessary to prepare a review
Osborne , 1983
Commodore 64, where do without it
And Sinclair ZX80
Atari 400
Certificate for that very first MMORPG
Then a small selection of portable equipment, more devices, photographed a couple of the most interesting ones:
Ibm simon
HP95LX on MS-DOS 3.0
The second floor is fully devoted to gaming consoles and technologies:
Portable Consoles
Gameboy Light and portable Sega Game Gear in the background
3DO , NeoGeo, Nec PC-FX, Playdia (Bandai)
Here we have the Sega Mark III, Master System, Amiga CD32 (Commodore)
TurboGraphx, Atari XE, Zemmix Super V, NES and Atari Jaguar, which was introduced as the first 64-bit console, although it is not
Nintendo family
Intellivision and huge Atati 5200
Colecovision and First Pong
A bunch of boxed games and magazines
One of the game controllers for NES is Power Glove. Worked with an ultrasonic sensor, made in the form of a frame for the TV
Helmet of virtual reality Forte VFX1, 1995
Another wonderful exhibit worthy of a separate review is the Nintendo Virtualboy. 3D glasses, you need to get to repair your copy, I will make a photo of the entrails
i-glasses, yes, this is exactly what this device of 1995 was called
Many consoles can be tested
On the third floor is another cool collection of retro computers, as well as a workshop and an interactive area.
IBM keyboard development history
On the left in the center of Next Cube is the brainchild of Steve Jobs after leaving Apple. The architecture of NextStep - the operating system for Next Computer formed the basis of OS X. In the center is another silicone station - Indigo
Rack Apple and Macintosh. In the center - a very rare TAM - Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
Old Macintosh, MSX and Amstrad
A family of computers that look like calculators, but they could run fairly complex programs. Many of these devices came with an integrated printer dock.
Philips TV, which I could not recognize
In the basement there is a hall with arcade machines, it is rather dark there, the photo did not work. In general, all the machines are the same, made to order, but they can be chopped into many popular games of the time. We with a local boy 12 years old hacked into the Tekken
Also in the basement there is a cafeteria and a gift shop.
On this, perhaps, everything. The place is definitely worth a visit.
- Museum site
- Virtual tour of the museum
- Some of the exhibits are in my modest collection on Instagram and Facebook
PS
Just two stops away is another famous place - Love Land .
On this optimistic note, the topic can be considered fully disclosed.
Thank you for attention.
So, welcome, Nexon Computer Museum .
')
The title photo is not mine, taken here , since I arrived in the morning and the sun was shining just in the face.
Jeju Island is located southwest of mainland Korea. Everything speaks about its volcanic origin, including the decoration of the streets, which is made of volcanic rock.
Under the spoiler, some travel notes and some information about the island itself, who are not interested - you can skip
Travel Notes on Jeju Island
The road to the island is very difficult, the fastest way is a plane, an international airport is located on the island, flight intensity is every 5 minutes, but 4 days before the trip there were no tickets there, so I had to choose a longer but more interesting way.
I was traveling from the city of Gumi , getting up at 5:30 in the morning, 7 km to the bus station, the bus I needed to go to Gwangju leaves at 7:30. There is a transfer to another bus to the port city of Wando , and from there a ferry to Jeju . The ferry ticket was bought in advance, and I took the bus tickets directly at the stations.
The buses are very comfortable, they drive about 90 km / h, all the seats are equipped with safety goggles, there is air conditioning and a charging port near each seat. The road to Gwangju took 2:50 with one stop for 20 minutes. From Gwangju to Wando another 2:10.
Great views opened along the way.
I arrived in Wando at 13:20, the ferry departed at 15:00, so I walked from the bus station to the terminal, looked at the town.
The ferry is rather not even a ferry, but a high-speed cargo catamaran, called Blue Narae , technical information about the ship is available on the old-school Finnish website.
It looks very cool, it goes briskly, the whole journey took 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Despite the fact that the ticket indicated the seat in the cabin of the vessel, I spent the whole way on the deck with a jar of beer and squid))
In the port of the island were already two pleasure boats and a huge cruise liner.
Arrived on the island closer to 5 pm, I booked Jeju R Hotel & Guesthouse for the night. For my money just a gorgeous place, and even breakfast was included in the price.
The next morning went to the Nexon Museum. I also managed to visit a couple of interesting museums, a botanical garden and went to the beach.
In the opposite direction, it was possible to take a plane ticket, also with a 50% discount, some kind of a share of the airline. Departure was at 22:10 to the city of Daego . In a straight line to it, only 330 km away, I thought there would be some kind of propeller aircraft, so when I saw the Boeing 737-800, to say the least, I was surprised. When I checked in, I was in for an unpleasant surprise, you cannot take a crib on board, I had to take the rucksack in my luggage, and the flight was delayed for 25 minutes;
40 kilometers remained to Gumi , city buses at that time no longer run, and it didn’t offer anything sensible to intercity Google either. The prospect of spending the night in Tegu (so this city is read) or going by taxi to Gumi was not at all pleasing. Having seen the railway station on the map, I decided to walk to it, at the same time to see the night city. I arrived in half an hour and was pleasantly surprised that in 15 minutes there was a train to Gumi. At 01:20 I was already in Gumi, the last spurt remained - 7 km to the hotel.
The price for a taxi in the evening is not particularly joyful, and the people were getting out of the train decently, I had the idea to ask if someone else could go in my direction and take a taxi for two. The first comrade did not understand English, but he was lucky with the second boy, it turned out that he and his two other friends had to go exactly there. We took a taxi, we are going, the guys are still students, they know English quite well (which, unfortunately, is a rarity in Korea), while they were driving, they asked who they were and where I was from. As a result, he offered them a third of the amount for a taxi, they refused, I did not strongly insist.
Closer to two nights, tired but pleased, got to the hotel.
Here is a trip.
Total travel budget:
Taxi to the bus station (half way, I really walked in the morning) - 4500 KRW
Bus ticket to Gwangju - 21300 KRW
Bus ticket to Wando - 16500 KRW
Jeju Ferry Ticket - 37000 KRW
Hostel - 22000 KRW
Flight ticket to Daego - 45000 KRW
Train ticket to Gumi - 3200 KRW
Taxi to the hotel - Free (it would be about 9000 KRW)
About 9000 more I spent on trips around the island
Total out about 160,000 KRW, which is about $ 145. In general, the road by plane to Jeju without discounts would be a little more expensive than buses + ferry, but much faster, so I would recommend just such an option.
Entrance fees to museums, food, souvenirs were paid separately.
The symbol of the island is considered such stone statues, in the form of which they sell magnets, chocolate and much more.
On this perhaps everything, under a spoiler, a separate article turned out :) It's time to move on to the description of the museum.
I was traveling from the city of Gumi , getting up at 5:30 in the morning, 7 km to the bus station, the bus I needed to go to Gwangju leaves at 7:30. There is a transfer to another bus to the port city of Wando , and from there a ferry to Jeju . The ferry ticket was bought in advance, and I took the bus tickets directly at the stations.
The buses are very comfortable, they drive about 90 km / h, all the seats are equipped with safety goggles, there is air conditioning and a charging port near each seat. The road to Gwangju took 2:50 with one stop for 20 minutes. From Gwangju to Wando another 2:10.
Great views opened along the way.
I arrived in Wando at 13:20, the ferry departed at 15:00, so I walked from the bus station to the terminal, looked at the town.
The ferry is rather not even a ferry, but a high-speed cargo catamaran, called Blue Narae , technical information about the ship is available on the old-school Finnish website.
It looks very cool, it goes briskly, the whole journey took 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Despite the fact that the ticket indicated the seat in the cabin of the vessel, I spent the whole way on the deck with a jar of beer and squid))
In the port of the island were already two pleasure boats and a huge cruise liner.
Arrived on the island closer to 5 pm, I booked Jeju R Hotel & Guesthouse for the night. For my money just a gorgeous place, and even breakfast was included in the price.
The next morning went to the Nexon Museum. I also managed to visit a couple of interesting museums, a botanical garden and went to the beach.
In the opposite direction, it was possible to take a plane ticket, also with a 50% discount, some kind of a share of the airline. Departure was at 22:10 to the city of Daego . In a straight line to it, only 330 km away, I thought there would be some kind of propeller aircraft, so when I saw the Boeing 737-800, to say the least, I was surprised. When I checked in, I was in for an unpleasant surprise, you cannot take a crib on board, I had to take the rucksack in my luggage, and the flight was delayed for 25 minutes;
40 kilometers remained to Gumi , city buses at that time no longer run, and it didn’t offer anything sensible to intercity Google either. The prospect of spending the night in Tegu (so this city is read) or going by taxi to Gumi was not at all pleasing. Having seen the railway station on the map, I decided to walk to it, at the same time to see the night city. I arrived in half an hour and was pleasantly surprised that in 15 minutes there was a train to Gumi. At 01:20 I was already in Gumi, the last spurt remained - 7 km to the hotel.
The price for a taxi in the evening is not particularly joyful, and the people were getting out of the train decently, I had the idea to ask if someone else could go in my direction and take a taxi for two. The first comrade did not understand English, but he was lucky with the second boy, it turned out that he and his two other friends had to go exactly there. We took a taxi, we are going, the guys are still students, they know English quite well (which, unfortunately, is a rarity in Korea), while they were driving, they asked who they were and where I was from. As a result, he offered them a third of the amount for a taxi, they refused, I did not strongly insist.
Closer to two nights, tired but pleased, got to the hotel.
Here is a trip.
Total travel budget:
Taxi to the bus station (half way, I really walked in the morning) - 4500 KRW
Bus ticket to Gwangju - 21300 KRW
Bus ticket to Wando - 16500 KRW
Jeju Ferry Ticket - 37000 KRW
Hostel - 22000 KRW
Flight ticket to Daego - 45000 KRW
Train ticket to Gumi - 3200 KRW
Taxi to the hotel - Free (it would be about 9000 KRW)
About 9000 more I spent on trips around the island
Total out about 160,000 KRW, which is about $ 145. In general, the road by plane to Jeju without discounts would be a little more expensive than buses + ferry, but much faster, so I would recommend just such an option.
Entrance fees to museums, food, souvenirs were paid separately.
The symbol of the island is considered such stone statues, in the form of which they sell magnets, chocolate and much more.
On this perhaps everything, under a spoiler, a separate article turned out :) It's time to move on to the description of the museum.
The museum opened on July 27, 2013, and last week celebrated its third anniversary. As the name implies, it contains his company Nexon , known primarily by the fact that it released the first online MMORPG back in 1996. The museum is located in a separate 4-storey building with a total area of about 2500 square meters. The museum is open from 10 to 18 all days except Monday. The entrance ticket costs 8,000 KRW (about $ 7.5).
On the ground floor there is a hall that tells the general history of computer technology. The photo was made on the phone, the lighting in the halls is not very bright, so I strongly ask you not to judge.
Prototype computer mouse
IBM Electronic Typewriter 1959
This is a miracle of technology - also a typewriter IBM WheelWriter 70 Series II 1988 year
The undoubted pride of the museum is the Apple I motherboard. This is the same fee that was sold at Sotheby's auction under lot number 57 at auction on July 15, 2012 for $ 374,500 .
Steve Wozniak autographed the replica of the wooden case of the Apple I during his visit to the island.
photo source
photo source
I, however, also have an artifact signed by Woz.
The evolution of storage media is presented in a rather interesting way:
As well as graphics both on consoles and on personal computers:
CGA - Color Graphic Adapter, IBM, 1982
HGC - Hercules Graphic Card, 1984
Intel 4004 processor , the rest did not take pictures, as usual:
The evolution of computer sound:
An interactive option that offers to listen to the same melody on different devices from PC Speaker to Roland :
UPD: How it all sounds, you can listen here
Another cool implementation - you can listen to the melodies from different games through these hoses. The name of the game is signed on handset:
Further a series of photos of various retro computers:
Altair 8800, 1975
Apple 2 and Tandy RadioShack 1977 TRS-80
Legendary Commodore PET in All-Metal Case
Equally Known IBM PC 5150
IBM's first laptop, PC Convertible 5140 and Macintosh Portable
Another interesting copy - Samsung SPC-5900RT, 1995
Goldstar Famicom FC-100D, 1982
National MSX CF2000
Graphic station Silicon Graphics O2, 1996, recently got the same, it will be necessary to prepare a review
Osborne , 1983
Commodore 64, where do without it
And Sinclair ZX80
Atari 400
Certificate for that very first MMORPG
Then a small selection of portable equipment, more devices, photographed a couple of the most interesting ones:
Ibm simon
HP95LX on MS-DOS 3.0
The second floor is fully devoted to gaming consoles and technologies:
Portable Consoles
Gameboy Light and portable Sega Game Gear in the background
3DO , NeoGeo, Nec PC-FX, Playdia (Bandai)
Here we have the Sega Mark III, Master System, Amiga CD32 (Commodore)
TurboGraphx, Atari XE, Zemmix Super V, NES and Atari Jaguar, which was introduced as the first 64-bit console, although it is not
Nintendo family
Intellivision and huge Atati 5200
Colecovision and First Pong
A bunch of boxed games and magazines
One of the game controllers for NES is Power Glove. Worked with an ultrasonic sensor, made in the form of a frame for the TV
Helmet of virtual reality Forte VFX1, 1995
Another wonderful exhibit worthy of a separate review is the Nintendo Virtualboy. 3D glasses, you need to get to repair your copy, I will make a photo of the entrails
i-glasses, yes, this is exactly what this device of 1995 was called
Many consoles can be tested
On the third floor is another cool collection of retro computers, as well as a workshop and an interactive area.
IBM keyboard development history
On the left in the center of Next Cube is the brainchild of Steve Jobs after leaving Apple. The architecture of NextStep - the operating system for Next Computer formed the basis of OS X. In the center is another silicone station - Indigo
Rack Apple and Macintosh. In the center - a very rare TAM - Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
Old Macintosh, MSX and Amstrad
A family of computers that look like calculators, but they could run fairly complex programs. Many of these devices came with an integrated printer dock.
Philips TV, which I could not recognize
In the basement there is a hall with arcade machines, it is rather dark there, the photo did not work. In general, all the machines are the same, made to order, but they can be chopped into many popular games of the time. We with a local boy 12 years old hacked into the Tekken
Also in the basement there is a cafeteria and a gift shop.
On this, perhaps, everything. The place is definitely worth a visit.
- Museum site
- Virtual tour of the museum
- Some of the exhibits are in my modest collection on Instagram and Facebook
PS
Just two stops away is another famous place - Love Land .
On this optimistic note, the topic can be considered fully disclosed.
Thank you for attention.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/369543/
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