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UVA Computer Science Museum

Posted by michael on from the cheer-up-me-lads-let-your-hearts-never-fuss dept.

Cryptographrix writes "Just came across this site, thought slashdot users should check it out, definately worth a read, has everything from the original Osborne portable computer to such memorables as the Altair...supposedly from the UVA staff's personal collection. Even has old (1950's and another board that looks like ESS3, maybe) telephone switching equipment."

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  1. Who would have thought... by NetRanger · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that we'd be so happy to see things we never want to have to use again. :-)

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  2. Re:Historical computer items by bovril · · Score: 2, Funny
    I can just see a programmer walk up to a dropped pile of punchcards all scattered around... no way to rewrite the program... Now THAT'S a nightmare!

    Pick up the cards and put them in the bin. That's called garbage collection, isn't it?

    Geddit? Geddit?!

    *sigh*

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  3. Punch cards by prockcore · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, every time I see a punch card I'm simply amazed that people used to do anything useful with them.. I find punch cards more amazing that any new technology.

    I tried to write a program using punch cards once, but instead of a nice sort routine, I accidentally voted for Pat Buchannen.

  4. Figures by vthokie69 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Leave it to UVA to put all that information on one long page with lots of graphics. It's really great for modem users. GO HOKIES!!!!!!!

  5. AST SixPak by Kris_J · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure my first PC had an AST SixPak at one time or another. I also remember it taking two and a half minutes to load Win3.0 (from the C: prompt, not from switch-on) on my 19MHz XT with 512k of disk cache in Expanded memory. How things have changed. Now it takes ten minutes to load Windows XP on my 1+GHz P3.