I really need to go there with my dad. I'm glad they're preserving this stuff.
I've decided my life is too cluttered to hold onto old computer equipment. All my old Macs, PCs, and laptops have found their way to recycling at Staples. It's funny when a $10k machine is just garbage.
At MIT I remember one day when a PDP-11 or some such came up on the recycle list as available for free in a hall outside a lab. Not sure who got it. And then of course the Media Lab for years, maybe still, used the husk of a Thinking Machines Connection Machine as a cocktail bar. A priceless relic whose one shining moment was as the "UNIX" machine in Jurassic Park.
In the mid-'70s my boyfriend was a computer engineer at a private company.
The computer took up one entire wall of the office, floor to ceiling.
I've decided my life is too cluttered to hold onto old computer equipment. All my old Macs, PCs, and laptops have found their way to recycling at Staples. It's funny when a $10k machine is just garbage.
At MIT I remember one day when a PDP-11 or some such came up on the recycle list as available for free in a hall outside a lab. Not sure who got it. And then of course the Media Lab for years, maybe still, used the husk of a Thinking Machines Connection Machine as a cocktail bar. A priceless relic whose one shining moment was as the "UNIX" machine in Jurassic Park.