That was a 1401 not 4601. I mixed my room number with the computer model...doh!
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Cameron Crum <[email protected]> wrote: > I just thought I'd share a little bit about the tour of the Computer > History Museum. Chuck had a emergency come up and couldn't make it, but > here are some photos. They have some great exhibits both on the hardware > and software side. It is headquartered in the old SGI headquarters and is > straddled on either side by the Google campus. If anyone's ever out there > and wants to get a tour, let me know and I'll send you contact information > for my buddy who's a director there. The first one is an actual working IBM > 4601. It takes up a really big size room and they actually have ex IBM > Engineers from the 50s that come in and turn it on a few times a week and > actually run Punch Cards through it to do things. They even have a punch > card maker and you can write your own code on a punch card and keep it as a > souvenir. The next one is and original Cray Super Computer. There were many > more really cool exhibits. Someone could totally geek out there for a whole > day or more. We were there for 3 hours and basically just walked by > everything, pausing just to listen to my friend tell us what the displays > were. But you could easily spend a few days there reading about everything > and really taking it all in. > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > >
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