Highlights from our exhibit area

I thought the list might appreciate a few highlights from our exhibit area. For the past several years, the History Center has been working with KRON Television (San Jose) journalist Stan Bunger to produce short computer history segments for television. Twenty-five of these are available on-line as streaming videos at the following location: http://www.newmedianews.com/tech_hist/ We hope to have a QTVR tour of our entire exhibit area (which has just doubled) sometime next year so that anyone the world over can "visit" the Center without leaving their chair! The new area will feature a special section on DEC computer history, microcomputers, and the Internet (including the fabled Internet Van, parked right in the exhibit area!) while the exisiting space is being re-configured to showcase punch card machines, mechanical calcualtors, machines from the vacuum tube and transistor eras, and supercomputers. Anyone interested in helping out with the digitizing of our exhibits, please drop me a line--you do not necessarily have to be in the Bay Area! Hope you enjoy the highlights. Best wishes, Dag. -- Dag Spicer Curator & Manager of Historical Collections Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing The Computer Museum History Center Building T12-A NASA Ames Research Center Mountain View, CA 94035 Tel: +1 650 604 2578 Fax: +1 650 604 2594 E-m: spicer(a)computerhistory.org WWW: http://www.computerhistory.org <spicer(a)computerhistory.org> PGP: 15E31235 (E6ECDF74 349D1667 260759AD 7D04C178) S/V 516T Read about The Computer Museum History Center in the November issue of WIRED magazine! See "The Computer Hall of Fame - Modern Art." pp. 276 - 299.