23 May
2024
23 May
'24
11:58 p.m.
I have a vague memory of visiting the Computer Museum when it was still at DEC, in the
Marlboro building (MRO-n). About the only item I recall is a Goodyear STARAN computer (or
piece of one). I found it rather surprising to have see a computer made by a tire
company. I learned years later that the STARAN is a very unusual architecture, sometimes
called a one-bit machine. More precisely, I think it's a derivative of William
Shooman's "Orthogonal Computer" vector computer architecture, which was for
a while sold by Sanders Associates where he worked.
paul
On May 23, 2024, at 5:00 PM, Kevin Anderson via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I had the good fortune of visiting The Computer Museum in Boston in the summer of 1984.
Reading the museum's Wikipedia article, it appears I was there while they were still
freshly setting up their Museum Wharf location, yet hadn't officially opened yet.
Unfortunately I only had an hour (or little more) to visit before I had to return to where
my wife was at a different location (which I vaguely recall was at an aquarium somewhere
nearby?). The clerk at the front entrance was really surprised that I was leaving so
soon...which in hindsight I wish now had not been so short.
Kevin Anderson
Dubuque, Iowa