[cctalk] Re: Visiting the computer history museum (chm)

I visited CHM in early 2018. I actually didn't go to CHM proper, but arranged with them to visit a warehouse nearby where they store a lot of stuff they don't display. I was able to see my "first personal computer" circa 1962. It was an IBM 709, the last vacuum tube computer from IBM (I think). It had made its way through a couple of stops from the Research Computer Laboratory at the University of Washington to CHM. As an undergraduate, I started working in the Lab as a Student Operator on the "late" shift (10pm-6am?). Early in UW quarters there were often no "jobs" to run through the system, and it sat idle. Plenty of time to fiddle with learning assembler and Fortran. If you had something specific of interest, you might be able to arrange something. I became a member to do this, and still am one today. Dave On 3/12/23 9:27 AM, Tarek Hoteit via cctalk wrote: