Computer History Museum
Visited
2017.05.14
Mountain View, California
I was in the Bay Area for on-site Google work and had some time to kill before the rest of my team touched down, so I took the opportunity to check out the Computer History Museum. For whatever reason, a lot of the pics I took never got saved — a shame, because computer history is rich with great design. So all I have are those few photos I shared on Instagram.
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Funny, I was reading William Gibson's novel Pattern Recognition on the flight here, and one of these makes an appearance in the story.
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Model of a 4-story SAGE blockhouse.
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Logos spotted on the R2E, from 1973.
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Interesting SWTPC logotype.
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"Crystal Ball" graphical-display controller, ca. 1963.
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Logo for The Muse, Triadex, an algorithmic music generator from 1972.
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Old robots. Not sure, but maybe this is where I got the bug to starting collecting them myself.