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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

  2. Accuracy by spacefrog · · Score: 5, Informative
    Articles like this do more harm then good when they are filled with inaccuracies.

    Not everything in the collection is Apple, though. There's also an original 1979 Osborne I--one of the first computers my father ever owned--the giant suitcase-size portable computer, and a Kaypro II, which helped kill the Osborne due to its smaller, sleeker design.
    The Osborne I was introduced in 1981. The Kaypo II (there was no Kaypro I) was slightly larger then the Osborne, and weighed 6 pounds more.

    This article is crap.