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 >> >> ------------- >> 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. > -- ><> ... Jack "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - " - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin Terma -- -- 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.
