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My report became possible because of the collaboration with the large number of different organizations and I want to thank teachers and students of the Moscow Institute Electronics and Mathematics, the Moscow State Technic University named after Bauman, the scientific researchers of the Applied Mathematics Institute named after Keldysh, the director of the Termen-center with the Moscow conservatory, the firm Media-art center and, of course, the colleagues of the computer systems and marketing divisions of our museum.
In the exposition space of Polytechnic museum, dedicated to the history of computational technology development, modern computer is used as follows:
1. for the restoration separate exhibits by creating the demonstration complexes on their basis;
2. for the more complete expansion of the history of separate directions computer technology and the demonstration of absentees in the exposition of material, documentary and graphic sources;
3. for conservation of audio and video information on several carriers: audio, video cassettes, laser disks and hard disk;
4. for the demonstration of the computer technology possibilities.

Unfortunately, to restore the first electronic digital machines for the demonstration of their work is practically impossible. However, with the aid of modern computers it is possible to show the operation of the separate devices. One of such demonstration complexes was created on the base of plotter “EC-7051M” and the personal computer, which works in the medium DOS.
In the 1980 years this plotter was the device for input-output information in the computers of United System and worked under control of the special block. In the computer collection of Polytecnic Museum we haven’t this blok. In the correspondence with the comprised technical task the student of Moscow Institute Electronics and Mathematics had developed the schematic of joining this plotter with the personal computer, and then he had assembled a new control unit on the basis of contemporary technological base. He had written programs of control in the algorithmic language C ++ and demonstration programs, which make it possible to derive the images selected by user from the library, for example, the logotype of polytechnic museum, to this plotter.
The first algorithmic language was FORTRAN (1955 year), and it’s graphic application was language GRAFOR, created for fulfilling the graphic works at the end 1960 years in the Institute of Applied Mathematics named after M.V.Keldysh.
Thus, in the exposition of the Electronic Digital Machines hall for the visitors of any categories we show the input-output of information from the computer and its fixation in the form of the drawings, different diagrams, graphs and tables on the paper with the aid of the plotter ES-7051.
In the beginning 70 years in Central Research Insstitute of Experimental Dwelling Projects the graphic mapping program ALGRAF was created, which made it possible to automate the designing of architectural and town-building objects. This program makes it possible to present the work of architecter during the presence of the planning solutions of rooms and the work of artist-designer during the search for the versions of complex forms and curved surfaces. Any visitor can perceive itself a little in their role.
It is important to note that in the created demonstration complex in the base of plotter ES 7051 and personal computer partially the history of appearance and development of the programming languages is reflected and remains.
Also in the exposition the dynamic stand of logic elements “Logical functions on the semiconductors” works under control of the personal computer. Executed at the factory of museum in 1960 years, it was no longer subject to restoration. Now it is easy to explain during the excursions with its aid, as can be realized the basic logical functions on the basis of the use of semiconductors in the second generation computers.
In this time the work is executed on the creation of similar complexes for the demonstration of functioning of the tape perforator “ПЛ-150” and the photoelectric input unit from the punched tape “FS 1501”.
Too now for any categories of visitors it is possible to demonstrate with PC the following slide-shows, created by the author of report with the aid of the program Power Point:
· “Charles Babbage and his Computers”;
· “Ada Lovelace - the First Programmer in the World”;
· “Search of Versions in the Composition of Fairy Tales”;
Also with the aid of the contemporary multimedia computer it is possible to hear out the computer music: from the first solo-voice melodies “Uralskie napevy” of R.Kh.Zaripov, the polyphonic compositions of A.M.Stepanov (executed on the first computing machines in the 1960 years of XX century), which were rewritten from the old tape recording tapes and enumerated, before the modern plays, written for the computer and the usual musical tools, for example “Dialog of computer and violoncello”.
In last year we began to conduct work according to digitization of video films from the scientifically-auxiliary fund for our group. The 5 films are already enumerated, for example, “Academician Lebedev”, “Mashine geometry and graphics” “Curved surfaces in automatization system” and this work it is planned to be continue.
It is wonderfully to demonstrate the connection of nature, mathematics, computer technology and arts with the aid of the fraktal drawing. Fantastic patterns, FRAKTALS, carried out not possessing imagination computer, following the mathematical and artistic intention of the doctor of technical sciences, the chief researcher of Institute Information Transfer of Russian Sciency Academy Peter Nikolayev. Computer seemingly sends point into the journey through the complex plane in accordance with some specific rules of the fulfillment of the operations on the complex numbers and obtains the whimsical band of ornament, which exits to the infinite depth. Among the variety of locks, spirals and eddies every time before us it is opened the picture of amazing beauty and appear many times the reduced copies of primordial Mandelbrot set. But as a whole the infinitely self-producing beauty appears, i.e., fraktal.
In XXI century artistic software finds ever wider acceptance. During May 2002 year in Moscow the festival of media-art is passed “Software as the kind of art or artistic games witn software”. It was oriented to the skill, adequate to information society, to the activity, the artistically and theoretically interpreting new reality, which can be enumerated. With the aid of modern multimedia PC it is possible to look over the work of participants in this festival, which demonstrated deep properties and qualities of programming. These works are executed with the use of contemporary, but most usual, i.e., widespread software. Programmer-artist, who creates or who uses software "differently", is capable, at least to the period, to conquer commerce and to introduce skill into the spheres, in which its presence is not primordial provided.
This usage of a computer with its multimedia possibilities makes it possible substantially to supplement and to expand the set of the themes, connected with the computer technology history without any limitations.