Washington DC classic computing resources/museums?

So how does one gain admission to the basement? I assume all this cool stuff is not open to the general public? Thanks, Chandra -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jason McBrien Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:27 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Washington DC classic computing resources/museums? Basement of the Smithsonian American History Museum. AWESOME collection of computing devices, from abacaii, mechanical tabulators, voting machines, typewriters, through ENIAC (I belive they have the accumulator panels) Enigma machines (They have the three AND four rotor types!) Apple I (Original Homebrew computer club prototype, wood case) SOL, Lisa, early Sun workstations, the first PDP/11-based fingerprint scanner for the FBI, an old Bendix mainframe the same green color as their 60's vintage washing machines, mockups of SAGE, HP calculators, stacks of old magazines, you name it. It's *really* impressive. Other collections may be bigger, but they have a lot of historically signifigant machines. ----- Original Message ----- From: "JP Hindin" <jplist(a)kiwigeek.com> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:48 PM Subject: Washington DC classic computing resources/museums? all