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Posted by Noel [Email] (more from Noel) on Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:22:56
In Reply to: Is the computer museum really gone?, Tim, Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:51:25
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The Computer Museum was located over by South Station on Fort Point channel, in the same building as the Children's Museum. Before that it was in Maynard (DEC campus) and I think it was briefly in Cambridge, but that was all before I worked there.
It merged into the Museum of Science 10-15 years ago. No idea what it's like at MoS. I think some of the collection went to a similar museum in the SF Bay area/Silicon Valley. There was some interesting stuff in the collection. It was started by Gwen Bell, the wife of Gordon Bell who was more or less the father of the DEC VAX series of minicomputers. Gordon was a hoot! Fun to hang out with.
When I was there we launched "The Walk-Through Computer" which was gigantic Macintosh II that you could walk inside and learn how a computer worked. It had a working trackball (the size of a small car) and a keyboard you could sit on. It was connected to a real Mac II and could actually run some programs.
Posts in this Thread:
- Pitchatcha, Dean, Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:05:55
- Yes, but probably none who post here.....long, MI-Roger
, Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:26:08- I've worked with 8" floppies, JerseySaab
, Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:37:32- Re: I've worked with 8, Ron, Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:03:22
- Or removable hard disk cassettes the size of LPs, MI-Roger , Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:36:55
- Re: I've worked with 8" floppies, Snowmobile , Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:48:16
- heh, heh... he said 8" floppy, turbocon86, Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:18:33
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