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A Trip Down Computer Memory Lane

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pigs-and-portables dept.

News.com has an interesting stroll down memory lane with a look at the "DigiBarn", a collection of technology from early mechanical calculators to modern web appliances. NASA contractor Bruce Damer and partner Alan Lundell run this "museum in transition" from a 19th-century farmhouse deep in the Santa Cruz mountains. In addition to notable success milestones, the company also includes some of the industry failures, like an Apple III Damer acquired from Apple's legal department.

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  1. wooo by sepelester · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could be called RAM Drive, but Computer Memory Lane is cool too

    1. Re:wooo by StikyPad · · Score: 1, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, RAM Drive travels on Memory Bus!

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  2. I'm dissapointed to see... by niceone · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that this is a just another computer museum, rather than one dedicated to computer memory, I was getting excited by the thought of all those glass cases full of SIMMs, DIMMs and maybe even some magnetic core.

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  3. I was a packrat. Now I'm a technolgy archivist... by dharmadove · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should take some of the crap in my garage. My retirement investment. You never know when someone might want a Type 80 rectifier, CK722s, BC-348, RTL chips, JSR Model 15, 1401 core memory, bubble memory, 8080, etc... Not mention the magazines / books, LOTS of books. My wife loves it. Not...

  4. Re:Cassette tape? Where are the MP3s??? by Richy_T · · Score: 2, Funny

    Old hardware, ZX Spectrums. Gotta be an opportunity to mention

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