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I don't remember if this was a freebie included with subscriptions, or one of those things included in an annual special edition.
One of (at least) 2 Cray-1 machines at the Computer History Museum, in what I once knew as SGI building 20. One of the few SGI buildings not later turned into a Google building. ;-)
We went on the short version of the tour, which was very cool, and saw the demo of the working PDP-1, which was even cooler. I definitely hope to go back some day and take the longer tour, and maybe catch the PDP-1 demo again. :-)
We needed food, though, so we went off to Taqueria La Bamba, the best burrito place known to me in the world. ;-)
Technical info:
two bare old-school (no power adjustment) flashes: one on the floor inside the cray, and another on the floor, camera left. Shot from a nearby staircase.
I recently visited the Computer History Museum with my friend Chuck Tomasi who I co-host our Podcast Technorama with. We shot a video while we were there for the show.
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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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 Control Data 6600 was a supercomputer that, for a time, was the fastest computer in the world. While it appears to be a case study for poor cable management practices, the layout shown is the correct one for this machine. The cables are of specific lengths in order to accurately calibrate the operation of the machine. This is possible due to the relationship between time and space that is inherent to an electrical cable. In a cable of a given length, an electrical signal will always take a given amount of time to travel its length. This established relationship between time and space is similar to that which is explored by Scott McCloud in his essay "Time Frames." McCloud explains the links between time and space that exist in the comic book format of storytelling. He points out that it takes readers a given amount of time to move from frame to frame on a page and that this amount of time can be controlled through the manipulation of those frames. This principle in its most basic form can also be applied to any reading of the written word.
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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From Washington Apple Pi users group. Book on using UCSC p-System Pascal for Apple II. Intro discusses p-code generated by Pascal compiler used on Apple II computers at the time. p-code is an intermediate code that requires an interpreter to run.
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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Various hard drives and disk packs (disk packs were basically stacks of removable disks that could be taken out of the drive, leaving the read heads behind).
Imagine the centrifugal force generated by these things in action. Probably had to bolt the drives to the floor to keep them from walking off.
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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Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1964 as part of an experiment to find better ways for computer users to interact with computers. The first mouse was carved out of wood and had just one button. Later incarnations such as this early Logitech mouse led to the diversity of mice now on desktops around the world—mice that often reflect the personalities of their users. The latest mice can even operate without wires.
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(6906)
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