2007 - CA Trip, Computer History Museum

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2007 - CA Trip, Computer History Museum

Located in Mountain View, CA. The Computer History Museum is a must-see for any computer geek.

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

Cray-1

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

Mechanical computer using bike chains, could quickly calculate prime numbers.

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

1-bit processors

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

CM-2 (Connection Machine by Thinking Machines). These could have upwards of 65,536 interconnected processors.

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

VAX!

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

What a goofy machine. This is a "kitchen computer", meant to be used for storing and calculating recipes, but at a time when computers were programmed with switches and displayed with nothing more than nixie tubes. Supposedly somewhere between zero and two were sold.

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

^top Sunday, April 15 2007

Google's first production systems (after the hodge-podge of desktops it was originally developed on that had the LEGO raid enclosure) were developed using cheap commodity hardware in racks such as this. Metal trays with 4 Pentium 2 boards and a plexiglas panel with the disks on it.