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from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2017-03-14 11:17:14
subject: Computer History Museum

I took my son to the Computer History Museum this weekend, took the docent-led
tour. We had a lot of fun, saw some ENIAC components, a UNIVAC console and
memory, a bunch of minicomputers (a Microdata Reality mini, VAX 11/780, and
PRIME 300, all systems I used in my career), a Xerox Alto, Apple 1 (signed by
Woz), Apple II, Lisa, Mac, tons of DOS PCs, Grid laptops, Amigas, Compaq
portables, and the highlight for my son, an IBM 1401 midrange computer set up
in a computer room, with raised tile flooring, line printers, paper TTYs, tall
magtape readers, and period desks and printouts. My son was amazed that
computers used to be manned 24/7 and that most people's interaction with the
computer was through greenbar 11x17 paper.

If you're in Mountain View, CA, check it out.
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