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Re-Opened Computer History Museum Explored

Posted by simoniker on from the room-sized-drool-objects dept.

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?"

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  1. Slashdot.com: A Masterpiece of Faggotry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. What I want to know by AssTard · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is if siamese twins, er, pleasure eachother, if you know what I mean.
    Thanks.

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    Asses are for crapping, not screwing.
  3. Let me be an AC by littleRedFriend · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To say that they must be running their webserver on these machines. Slashdotted after one comment!

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    IANAL, but imagine a beowulf cluster of in Soviet Russia all your belong are base to us welcoming the new SCO overlords.
  4. Umm... how did this get modded "interesting?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just wondering. Whoever did so will get nailed in metamoderation.

    1. Re:Umm... how did this get modded "interesting?" by taped2thedesk · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      I think the point is that some (many?) mods see something they don't agree with and mod it down, rather than actually CONTRIBUTING to the discussion. Usually I M2 half of the Offtopic/Trolls unfair.

      The main point of moderation is to mark the good stuff up, so that more people see it. Not only are people who mod everything down (other than GNAA shit and the like) wasting their mod points, but they are detracting from what could be a good discussion.

      From the FAQ:

      Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. The goal here is to share ideas. To sift through the haystack and find needles. And to keep the children who like to spam Slashdot in check.
  5. Re:GNAA FROSTY!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    whomever moderated the parent up is hereby given a FREE honorary GNAA membership!

    claim your membership in #GNAA on EFNet (irc.easynews.com) now!

  6. Re:whats the point? by CausticWindow · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    His illegal drugs online thing is a sham.

    If you really want to buy semi illegal drugs online, click here instead.

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    How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
  7. Obvious goatse link in parent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First, you're supposed to disguise it so people don't know that's what's waiting at the other end of that link.

    Second, is anyone even shocked by that image any more?

  8. mac problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.