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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. --- SBBSecho 3.00-Win32* Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/700) SEEN-BY: 18/200 34/999 90/1 116/18 120/331 123/140 128/187 140/1 218/700 222/2 SEEN-BY: 230/150 240/1120 249/303 250/1 261/38 100 266/404 267/155 280/1027 SEEN-BY: 282/1031 1056 292/908 320/119 219 340/400 393/68 396/45 633/0 267 280 SEEN-BY: 633/281 408 410 412 640/384 712/620 848 770/1 801/161 189 2320/105 SEEN-BY: 3634/12 @PATH: 218/700 261/38 712/848 633/280 267 |
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