5 Aug
2004
5 Aug
'04
11:36 p.m.
And thusly Bob Shannon spake:
It was painful to walk through that place and see restorable hardware
gutted and filled with strings of winking christmas lights.
There was a TON of really important and rare stuff that got trashed
there. CADR's, a Foonly, I think even
the original CONS machine went there, never to see the light of day again.
I visited the Computer History Museum shortly after I moved to Boston.. It
was *such* a disappointment. :( OOOhhh! I get to feel how warm a vacuum
tube gets...
It is pretty sad when the best part of the tour was seeing the pictures of
important people in the computer industry at the end.....
They needed to take a cue from places like the Ontario Science Centre where
interactivity is the focus!!
Cheers,
Bryan Pope