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Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess
www.computerhistory.org/chess/
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(6944)
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.
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Kitchen Computer, Neiman Marcus, 1969.
"The Kitchen Computer was featured in the 1969 Neiman Marcus catalog as a $10,600 tool for housewives to store and retrieve recipes. Unfortunately, the user interface was only binary lights and switches. There is no evidence that any Kitchen Computer was ever sold. Inside was a standard Honeywell 316 minicomputer, billed as the first 16-bit machine at that price from a major computer manufacturer."
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7098)
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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Z3 Adder (reconstruction), 1941
Konrad Zuse’s Z3 was the world’s first automatic, electromechanical computer. It was controlled by holes punched in used 35mm movie film. This relay board is a modern reconstruction of one of its binary addition units. It is an interactive model that has two 10-bit registers and shows the intermediate computation state via a set of lamps. The Z3 featured two binary adders constructed with telephone relays and was able to perform floating-point arithmetic on 22-bit numbers. The complete machine contained 2,600 relays and had a memory of 64 works.
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7068)
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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Whirlwind I, MIT, c. 1951
Memory: 6,144 (16-bit) Core
Speed: 125,000Add/s
Cost: $17,400,000
“The Whirlwind I digital computer project began in later 1945 at MIT and was operational about five years later. The Whirlwind project changed focus several times. It began as a project to build a real-time aircraft simulator, but from 1947 onwards, efforts were directed towards building an electronic digital computer. With the onset of the Cold War, Whirlwind was used as a testbed for America’s SAGE air defense system. Whirlwind was the first computer to use magnetic core memory, a technology perfected by project leader Jay Forrester to replace the unreliable Williams’ tube (CRT) memory. This was just one of the many fundamental contributions to computer design made by Whirlwind.
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7159)
Challenge: The Internet.
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At the 28th #IIW: Internet Identity Workshop, the landmark unconference held twice each year at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.
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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RB5X Educational Robot, General Robotics Corp, US, 1985
The RB5X is an example of the type of programmable robot produced for hobbyists during the first half of the 1980s. Not only did it use infrared sensing, remote audio/video transmission, bump sensors, and a voice synthesizer, it also had software that enabled the robot to learn about its environment. The RB5X incorporated a National Semiconductor INS8073 8-bit microprocessor and, like many similar robots, was programmed using a variant of TinyBASIC.
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7081)
At the 28th #IIW: Internet Identity Workshop, the landmark unconference held twice each year at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.
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This photo won Honorable Mention, Pictorial category, Intermediate level, Berkeley Camera Club, 11/1/2011.
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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Biper-4, University of Tokyo, 1983
Biper-4 was part of a series of robots designed by Isao Shimoyama and Hirofumi Miura at the University of Tokyo in the early 1980s to explore balance and bipedal locomotion. While its mechanized knee and ankle joints improved upon earlier versions, Biper-4 still required ski-like feet in order to remain standing.
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7087)
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
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 IBM 1401 Data Processing System allowed business to automate processes like payroll, inventory, and billing in order to increase the efficiency of these operations.
The IBM 1401 is an example of a computer system being developed in order to serve the needs of industry which, along with the government, was the driving force behind advances in computer technology prior to the development of the personal computer.
In spite of its utilitarian design, the 1401 system had an unexpected feature that lent itself to artistic expression. The 1403 printer that was included in the system produced operational noises that varied with the specific characters and fonts being printed. Frequent users found that with careful selection of characters they could produce a rhythm and variety of sounds that could be described as music. This effect is remarkably reminiscent of that which was envisioned by Ada Lovelace, though the apparatus used to produce it is not what she imagined.