I have a vague memory of visiting the Computer Museum when it was still at DEC,
in the Marlboro building (MRO-n). About the only item I recall is a Goodyear
STARAN computer (or piece of one). I found it rather surprising to have see a
computer made by a tire company. I learned years later that the STARAN is a
very unusual architecture, sometimes called a one-bit machine. More precisely,
I think it's a derivative of William Shooman's "Orthogonal Computer" vector
computer architecture, which was for a while sold by Sanders Associates where
he worked.
paul
> On May 23, 2024, at 5:00 PM, Kevin Anderson via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I had the good fortune of visiting The Computer Museum in Boston in the
> summer of 1984. Reading the museum's Wikipedia article, it appears I was
> there while they were still freshly setting up their Museum Wharf location,
> yet hadn't officially opened yet. Unfortunately I only had an hour (or
> little more) to visit before I had to return to where my wife was at a
> different location (which I vaguely recall was at an aquarium somewhere
> nearby?). The clerk at the front entrance was really surprised that I was
> leaving so soon...which in hindsight I wish now had not been so short.
>
> Kevin Anderson
> Dubuque, Iowa
