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>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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