We had an opportunity to visit the Intel Museum/showroom in Santa Clara, CA a few years back. It brought back lots of memories. Also worth the time if you get a chance.
Regards, David Coudron From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Cameron Crum Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 10:43 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Computer History Museum 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.
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