1 Jun
2004
1 Jun
'04
6:26 a.m.
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?
Greetings all;
I'm heading off to DC tomorrow, and it occurred to me while there are all
the usual haunts for museums (NASM, Holocaust, monuments, so on, so
forth) that there quite possibly is a computing museum, or at least
"Warehouse o' Junk" somewhere in DC.
Anyone have suggestions as to things to look at along this vein?
JP