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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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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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Soft sector 8 inch floppy and hard sector 5 1/4 inch floppy. Bonus points for anyone who can explain how I know.
Hollerith machine, used in the 1890 census.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_machine
This company formed the basis of IBM.
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CDC 7600 (serial number 1), Control Data Corporation, 1971
Memory: 512K (60-bit) Core
Speed: 36 MFLOPS
Cost: $5,000,000
“The CDC7600 was the follow on to the 6600, designed by Seymour Cray. About five times faster than the CDC 6600, scientific and government institutions primarily used both machines to execute large mathematical programs written in FORTRAN. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used this machine to design nuclear weapons and, like most CDC customers, wrote much of their own software. A very large machine, the 7600 had over 120 miles of hand-wired interconnections. It was Freon cooled.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7035)
Edit Oct 13, 2011: One of the authors of this book, the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, Dennis M. Ritchie has passed away.
I took this picture when had visited the Computer History Museum (www.computerhistory.org) in 2008.
RIP Dennis Ritchie.
Although, in 1983, the typeface would have been Goudy...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.
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)
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Copyright 1983. 4585 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066. Turbo Pascal was sold through direct mail for $49.95 with no copy protection and their famous "book license" when everyone else charged $200 to $400, and Borland completely transformed the compiler market by making it readily available to jobless high school hobbyists like me.
Seagate is located at this address now after built a bajillion dollar campus on the other side of Highway 17, which is now occupied by a fitness center and is currently under renovation for some UCSC administrative offices.
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.
These programmers convert the code written on paper sheets into tape. The tape could then be read by the computer, to have the program loaded into memory.
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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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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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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The Hollerith Machine and the 1890 Census
“Herman Hollerith invented the first automated tabulating system using punch cards. Initially designed to process the 1890 census, his system became the basis for punch card accounting machines for most of the 20th century. Hollerith became wealthy as his Tabulating Machine Company expanded beyond government customers to include railroads, insurance companies, and manufacturers. Hollerith sold his patent rights in 1911 to a holding company (C-T-R) that was renamed international Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924. Throughout most of the 20th century, punch card machines grew very sophisticated and bridged the gap between the paper and electronic ages.
The 1890 Census had not only to count a record number of Americans, but also collect more facts about them. Hollerith machines provided the automation that allowed the census to be completed in less than three years, compared to seven years for the previous one. Information about each person was punched into a card using a “pantograph” punch. To read the information, the card was placed in a press where spring-loaded contacts poked through the holes, completing an electrical circuit and advancing one or more of 40 counters. The counters were recorded and reset to zero at the end of the day.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7183)
From the left: John Markoff (a journalist from The New York Times), Steve Wozniak (Apple), Jack Tramiel (Commodore and later Atari), Bill Lowe (IBM), Adam Chowaniec (Amiga)
It was really something to see this in person.
Exhibit at the Computer Museum when it was in Boston, MA
Taken around 1990 with a Vivitar PS:20 using Ektachrome 100 slide film. Scanned on a Canon MP990 using auto scan (1200 dpi). No edits other than flipping. The scan software is silly. It does not have you place the emulsion side toward the glass. It also crashes a lot in manual mode.
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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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
Follow Me on my Tumblr.com Photo Blog