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Computer History Museum in Mountain View California
1401 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA
(650) 810-1010
The world's largest history museum for the preservation and presentation of artifacts and stories of the Information Age located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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In 1953, Shell Labs in Amsterdam was the first site in the Netherlands to use an electronic computer in a production environment. The computer was a Ferranti Mark I*, designed at Manchester University (with help from the legendary Alan Turing) and built by British company Ferranti. The Amsterdam model was called MIRACLE, for "Mokums (Amsterdam's) Industrial Research Automatic Calculator for Laboratory and Engineering", but some people nicknamed it "May It Replace All Chaotic Laboratory Experiments". My mother was one of its programmers and kept a photo album.
This is my mother, Lidy de Ronde (later Lidy Zweers - de Ronde), working at Shell. She was one of the first computer programmers of the Netherlands. She also tought many others at Shell to program the Miracle; halfway her two week course, many of them were able to have the machine successfully calculate 2+3. That would involve learning the binary number system, learning the Miracle's instruction set, writing a program on paper, punching the program onto paper tape, feeding it into computer memory with a tape reader, pointing the start address at the program in memory, running it, reading the result (often binary) and collecting the tape from the floor.
Computer History Museum in Mountain View California
1401 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA
(650) 810-1010
The world's largest history museum for the preservation and presentation of artifacts and stories of the Information Age located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Picture Taken by Michael Kappel (Me)
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A Babbage engine identical to the original on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. It was completed in March 2008.
Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long.
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This photo won Honorable Mention in Journalism, Basic division, Berkeley Camera Club, 4/19/11.
Computer History Museum in Mountain View California
1401 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA
(650) 810-1010
The world's largest history museum for the preservation and presentation of artifacts and stories of the Information Age located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Picture Taken by Michael Kappel (Me)
View the high resolution Image on my photography website
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Back: Sinclair ZX-81 with 16-K expansion pack (the tall thing), Sinclair Spectrum.
Front: Sinclair QL ("Quantum Leap").
This is the last out of four Canon Cat promotional photos that I had access to, scanned and cleaned up.
Here is the description accompanying the photo:
In addition to other office functions,The Canon Cat “work processor” can communicate with other Cats or computers and provides telephone auto-dialing for electronic mail and regular conversation. Its built-in features include software with spell checker, a 3.5” micro floppy disk drive, modem, serial and parallel interfaces.
This is one of the artifacts found in the Computer History Museum.
This is the Cray supercomputer. Amazing how fast and powerful it was at the time.
When introduced in 1966, the CDC 6600 was the fastest computer in the world. Designed by Seymour Cray, it executed about 3,000,000 instructions per second and remained th fastest machine for five years, until Cray produced his next supercomputer, the 7600.
The elegant architecture of the 6600 included one 60-bit central processor with multiple functional units coupled to ten shared-logic 12-bit peripheral I/O processors. The machine was Freon cooled. Selling for $6 to $10 million each, Contral Data Corporation (CDC) manufactured about 100 machines.
This was a gift of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Computer History Museum in Mountain View California
1401 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA
(650) 810-1010
The world's largest history museum for the preservation and presentation of artifacts and stories of the Information Age located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Picture Taken by Michael Kappel (Me)
View the high resolution Image on my photography website
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Computer History Museum in Mountain View California
1401 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA
(650) 810-1010
The world's largest history museum for the preservation and presentation of artifacts and stories of the Information Age located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Picture Taken by Michael Kappel (Me)
View the high resolution Image on my photography website
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