The Program Coordinator for Rockville Science Center invited me to exhibit at Rockville Science Day. I decided to bring something easy to move this year. This was variant of the 2024 bouncing ball simulation except plotted instead of typed on the Teletype.
I taped sheet of 8.5x11" paper to the drum with removable tape to make it easy to give the plots away. From the pile of tape I gave away about 24 plots over the 5 hours. I tricked kids into wanting a graph. Didn't get as long a line as some times but was busy most of the day. Was a little slow at the beginning. Everything behaved this time.
Bounce program FORTRAN source code
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Computer and peripherals (164K)
Calcomp 563 plotter (150K)
Running program ( 99K)
Crowd (103K)
Example plot ( 20K)
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