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Re-Opened Computer History Museum Explored
gosand writes "An article over at OSNews gives a nice overview of the recently re-opened Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. There are some good pictures in the article, and also at the Museum's website. They have a lot of very interesting computers, including an Apple I (signed by Woz), an Enigma machine, and Crays 1, 2, and 3 (yes, there was a 3!) Maybe you have something sitting in your basement that you would like to donate?"
The previous article was an "Ask Slashdot" article from an individual who wanted to see things that geeks would want to see in North America. I guess he can add THIS to his list.
... when you can send all your old junk/I mean treasured old computers to a museum?
"For years, I struggled with reality... but I'm happy to say I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd
I don't want to see anything created after I was born be in something called a "museum" ... it makes me feel old...
Dang... I was just about to pull the Timex out from under the door it was holding open.
I have a really old computer from thousands of years ago. The name brand is "Abacus" and I believe they had many patents on the technology. The computer works by having the operator move beads based upon the calculation being performed. This is known as programming. Once the program has been written, the answer is immediately available. Execution time from programming it to getting the answer is zero, meaning that this Abacus brand computer is infinitely fast.
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Quick, somebody donate a new webserver!
=Smidge=
I have an old Pentium 2. -grin-
No seriously though, I started on the old Commodores and the Tandys. Anything much before that and I am lost. Personally, I'd love to see one of the old census machines from the 1890's. I read somewhere that its creator said that the world would never need more than three computers. hehehe. Makes Bill Gates' statement about 640k not look so foolish. (Especially since he never actually said it)
I hope it goes well for them.
how did your first computer affect your life?
It ran win95 and fucked up a lot. It taught me (by necessity if i wanted to do anything) the basics of fixing computers. It now is my webserver running FreeBSD.
If so I call dibs once my position at IBM is outsourced to India
No.
I would rather use my Apple Lisa as a paper weight to prevent my old 1960's magazine porn collection from blowing around from gusts in the basement.
The world needs no more than one computer, it's just very spread out.
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In related news ...
"The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA became the first in the world to run an http server on a vintage Altair 8800. The exhibit was promptly destroyed when millions of crazed fanatics of the website "slashdot" tried to access the Altair at the same moment."
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One eBay listing away!!! I'm obsessed with buying old crap off ebay.
...is an extinct species known as the "Programmerus Americanus"
Table-ized A.I.
I hope so, I finally got all the bugs out of my program and I want to run it one more time.