Computer History Museum
In January the WAVE Report visited this museum. In addition to the article in issue 0206 of The WAVE Report, we sought to take pictures of many of the high interest artifacts. Even with the 1,000+ photographs taken it is not possible to cover all that is in "visible storage."
Vacuum tube with IBM Logo
- on the Electronic Module for the IBM 701 Computer
Given that artifacts are scattered we concluded that the only way to present the images is by a map and topic. Click on
and a separate window will open of the map we created from the visit. This is not to scale and the direction shown in the upper left corner is approximate. However, we still feel it is a very useful guide in taking the virtual tour. The blue lines in the map denote paths where one is permitted to walk. From this we used a sequence of red numbers to denote places were pictures were taken. Thus, all of the facilities photos use these location numbers and directions to denote approximately where and in what direction the pictures were taken. Once this virtual tour is taken it is easier to understand the topics that contain the detailed photos. The topic categories are:
Facility
New Facility
Before 1960
Early Calculators
After 1960
Analog
IBM
DEC
Supercomputers
PC Era
Graphics
Internet
Memory and Storage
Printers and Terminals
Military and Space
Computers as Art
Open
Each topic can be reached from any of the other topic sections.
Many of the photos are also annotated with the location and direction coordinates.
An interesting topic is Computers as Art. In taking the photos we noticed a number of interesting graphic elements. You might also.
A number of the images just have a "?". We will continue to update the site to correct these and others the readers point out to us. Please send us an e-mail with your inputs or corrections:
We would like to thank:
John Toole, Executive Director & CEO
Dr. Michael Williams, Head Curator and
Karen Mathews, Executive VP
for making the museum available, giving us the detailed tour and helping on this article and photolog.
http://www.computerhistory.org
Updated on 5/9/07
