That is interesting. I would like to visit the museum some day. Here's descriptions from a couple of the pictures.
"IBM's System/360 of the mid 1960s came in five different speed and size ranges, starting at 4K of memory and eight 16-bit registers. The architecture dominated business markets and computer science for three decades." Can you imagine that we once worked with computers with only 4K of memory. Oh, and they successors of these are still very important in the business world. Bill Gates just won't admit it. "The PDP-8 from DEC was the first mass-produced minicomputer. By 1973 it was the best-selling computer in the world, and over 25 years, DEC produced more than a dozen variations of the PDP-8 architecture." When I was in college I worked with a professor who was studying brain waves. He had placed probes from a PDP-8 into the brains of mice (I know - poor little mice), and I did the programming to produce analysis reports. Tom Kelman > Posted by Kopischke, David G. > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:40 AM > > Here's an interesting one from Intelligent Enterprise today.... > > - Computer History Museum Tour in Pictures > > http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/information_management/sho > wArticle.jhtml?articleID=212501470&cid=nl_ie_week > > By Doug Henschen > Our favorite event venue of 2008? Hands down it was the Computer History > Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Take the tour in pictures. > > > http://www.intelligententerprise.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID > =23&imageID=1&articleID=212501470 > ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
