Washington DC classic computing resources/museums?

From: Chandra Bajpai <cbajpai_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue Jun 1 21:34:11 2004

So how does one gain admission to the basement? I assume all this cool
stuff is not open to the general public?

Thanks,
Chandra


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[mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jason McBrien
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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_at_kiwigeek.com>
To: <cctalk_at_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
>
>
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