I went to the museum when it was in Boston before moving to the left coast.
 At that time they had an Altair on display, and the one I had at home had
a lower serial number. ... In many ways I should be part of the Smithsonian
IMHO.  But possibly so should the casket museum in Houston :)


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Csaba Toth <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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
>>
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>> Now if they would just do this with WinXP
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