Actually I was there not so long ago (as a part of Visual Studio Launch). The Museum is next to Microsoft's Mountain View campus. There are sections which are sponsored by Intel, Microsoft, Apple, which are of course about those companies. They donate material goods (like intel donated wafers and old kinds of stuff). I think the Linux Foundation or FSF or someone should donate money, so Linux and/or open source could have their own exhibits also!!! Does anyone have connection to those organizations to let them know this idea?
In the Microsoft they have for example Bill Gate's letter to hobbyists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists In a Linux exhibit, they could cite the original e-mailing debate between Linus and Tanenbaum. Minix could be there too. Maybe there is some Linux, I just didn't have enough time to cover the area. It's very zig-zag and I got lost many times because I wondered and attracted to different stuff not following the advised order. I loved the old crays and old stuff. They have exhibit for CADs, robots, etc. They have _really_ old stuff also. They have the Utah teapot, lots of interesting stuff. I got lost so much (and missed some sessions), that I almost got locked into the museum: it was opened only for limited time that day, and I was watching some footages (each exhibit has several videos on wide screen LCDs), and suddenly everything turned off. I started running towards the exit, and just like in a movie, the big doors almost got closed ahead of me. I knew I was overtime, but I wanted to see as much as I could. :) Google has an open exhibit outside the closed exhibits area. Csaba On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > > Computer History Museum Makes Historic MS-DOS and Word for Windows Source > Code Available to the Public > > > http://www.computerhistory.org/press/ms-source-code.html > > ------------- > Now if they would just do this with WinXP > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
