Computer History Museum tour

[Richard Schwartz]

Friday night the telescope making group meets at the Chabot Science Center
in Oakland.   There you can observe actual telescope mirror geeks grinding,
polishing, testing, and accidentally breaking their glass, and you can learn
some new curse words.

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From: hhc-bounces at lists.handheld.org [mailto:hhc-bounces at lists.handheld.org]
On Behalf Of Eric Smith
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:12 PM
To: hhc at lists.handheld.org
Subject: Computer History Museum tour


Once again I'll recommend the Computer History Museum as an interesting
place to visit that is not too far from the conference location.  CHM is
open to the public on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from 1 PM to 4 PM, and on
Saturday from 11 AM to 5 PM.  There are docent-led tours.

For those that can't make it to the museum on Friday, I'll once again offer
to lead a private tour early Sunday morning.

The PDP-1 team celebrated a successful restoration of the PDP-1 late last
year, but we've managed to break the display recently and are in the process
of fixing it.  Provided that the repair is completed, if you join my tour
group you can play Spacewar, one of the earliest computer games, which was
developed on the PDP-1 in 1962.

There is no fee for the tour, though donations to the museum are welcomed.

Eric


Museum site:
    http://www.computerhistory.org/

"Visible Storage":
    http://www.computerhistory.org/virtualvisiblestorage/

"Restoring the DEC PDP-1 Computer":
    http://www.computerhistory.org/core/articles/restoring_the_PDP.html



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