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afniel · 20 days

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Not to be turboweird on main but old supercomputers smell really, really good.

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desertmarauder · 8 months

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"Pong" prototype - Computer History Museum | 6/7/2023

#pong #video games #computer games #prototype #computer history museum #chm #california #nikon z7ii #photographers on tumblr #desertmarauder

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allthingsfern · 1 year

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Chilling: Computer History Museum. Mountain View, 05-13-23.

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basic-retro-programming · 1 year

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Computer History Museum in San Jose, California ...

Post : #219: The Computer History Museum in San Jose, California, U.S.A., 2023.

#programming #computer #retro computing #vintage computing #computer museum #san jose #computer history museum

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mosqitofood · 1 year

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#typewriter #vintage #computer history museum #working #ibm #video

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fuzzysparrow · 1 year

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Where in the world is the Computer History Museum located?

The Computer History Museum (CHM) is located in Mountain View, California, USA. The museum explores the computing revolution and its impact on society. The museum dates back to 1968 when electrical engineer Gordon Bell started collecting information about computers. The first exhibition took place in 1975 and became a permanent museum in 1978.

The museum was originally called The Digital Computer Museum (TDCM) and was based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Later, under the name The Computer Museum (TCM), it moved to Boston. In 1996, the TCM History Center was established, which changed its name to the Computer History Museum in 2000. Finally, the CHM opened its new museum in Mountain View, California in 2002.

The CHM boasts the largest and most significant collection of computing artefacts in the world, including rare or one-of-a-kind objects such as a Cray-1 supercomputer, the Utah teapot, the 1969 Neiman Marcus Kitchen Computer, and an Apple I. There are around 90,000 objects, photographs and films in total.

Since 1987, the museum and its previous incarnations have honoured men and women 'whose ideas have changed the world and affected nearly every human alive today' as CHM Fellows, beginning with Admiral Grace Hopper. Other Fellows include Mitch Kapor, Steve Wozniak, Tim Berners-Lee and Margaret Hamilton.

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shootoutsun · 5 months

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A selection of cables, all within the CHM, CA

#photo #computer history museum #tech

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shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn · 1 year

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Yesterday was Grace Hopper’s birthday (1906).

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper that is.

 She is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.

What else should be named after her?

#Computer History Museum #we usually only get to see that photo of her in her uniform in her 80s #just a reminder she was once a woman working in tech

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restonse · 2 years

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If you work with computers, stop and look at this. The Computer History Museum has found and restored videos from a 1976 conference on the first 25 years of computing. This is akin to videos of the constitutional convention of 1787.

#Computer History Museum #computer history #computing #knuth #backus #dijkstra

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internationaldayoflight · 16 days

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Digital identity and e-sign technologies have enabled billions of transactions.

From launching a digital identity system used by 1.3 billion people, to evolving from a primarily cash-based society to the country with the highest volume of digital payments in the world, India's digital transformation is a remarkable success story. A set of public sector digital technologies known as the "India Stack," that includes layers for proving identity, handling digital payments, and sharing data, has enabled profound societal impacts. Now street vendors in India can accept instant digital payments even if they don't have WiFi or electricity. Wait times at borders have been cut from days to minutes.

Join CHM to find out from Pramod Varma, former chief architect of the digital identity system Aadhaar and numerous India Stack technologies, how it all works.

What to Expect

Hear about India's transformative new approach to solving societal problems using digital public infrastructure.

Learn about key elements of the public civic technologies.

Discover lessons for the rest of the world on how civic investments in technology can improve societal welfare.

India's Digital Revolution

Thu, May 30 • 7:00 PM

*Computer History Museum

1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043 United States.

#Digital Revolution #computer history museum #public civic technologies #civic investments #light-based technologies #digital public infrastructure #digital identity system #e-sign technology #digital system

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joebustillos · 4 months

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Happy 40th Anniversary to the Macintosh and All You Fellow Mac-Heads

This week was the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh. I wasn’t there for that particular intro. But I read about it, saw the Super Bowl commercial and dreamed about getting one of those cool computers. I’d been working for the phone company for five years and regularly wandered by the computer stores in the mall to ogle at the newly introduced IBM PCs but didn’t think that I…

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#apple computer #Apple Macintosh #Computer History Museum #Macintosh 40th anniversary #technology journey

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desertmarauder · 8 months

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Computer History Museum | 6/7/2023

#computer history museum #chm #vintage computing #honeywell #retrotech #nikon z7ii #photographers on tumblr #desertmarauder

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1lastdate · 2 years

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Great History of Computer in Hindi

Computer का महत्व हमारे जीवन में बहुत अद्भुत है, उसी प्रकार इसके History को जानना हमारे लिए जरूरी है, आप History of computer in Hindi में Computer के History से जुड़े कई सवालो की जानकारी प्राप्त कर सकते है। जैसे की Computer का निर्माण किसने किया था? इसका जन्म कैसे हुआ और Computer के father कौन थे? क्या पहले भी लोग Computer पर game खेलते, गाने सुनते या letter type करते थे आदि History of…

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ralfmaximus · 6 days

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Xerox Alto Workstation, 1973.

The thing that Steve Jobs stole saw that inspired him to create Macintosh. Imagine that in an alternate universe very close to our own that instead of Copy-n-Paste it's Stuff-n-Paste.

From a visit to the Computer Museum of America, Roswell Georgia.

#vintage #computer #history #museum

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mosqitofood · 2 years

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#computer reference #intel #dell #wires #wireframe #computer #chm #computer history museum #green #drawing ref

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 1 year

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@xxflyingwiththestarsxx I would happily make a zoo builder game if I knew how to code and this wasn't the millionth time I wanted to make my own video game without the actual infrastructure to make it happen

#other video games I'd like to make include Prehistoric Snap #a museum tycoon game #a reboot of magic school bus dinosaurs except its all of life's history #an ecology simulator #the list goes on #but I can't code for shit so here we are #you know how alan grant breaks computers?#that's an accurate stereotype of paleontologists #I put my hands on the thing and it screams at me

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