Computer History Museum's 2008 Fellows
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — ... contributions to the field of computing--software, hardware, computer science, electrical engineering and so on. Age, gender, formal education and commercial success are not factors in considering who's chosen for this award, but the impact of what they've done is--whether their work has changed, say, how computing is done or how people think about it. To make sure contributions are indeed historically important, they have to be at least 10 years old. Here are this year's winners: > Jean Bartik , 83, one of six women selected to program the ENIAC ...

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds, Others Honored In Silicon Valley
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... Tuesday night honored three legends in the industry, including Linux-creator Linus Torvalds whose operating system became the catalyst for the open-source software movement that challenged traditional concepts of intellectual property. Along with Torvalds, the museum honored at its annual Fellow Awards ceremony Jean Bartik, one of the first programmers of the ENIAC computing system that later evolved into the first stored-program computer; and Bob Metcalfe, who led the invention, standardization and commercialization of the Ethernet ...

Steampunk conference report, part II
MAKE Magazine — ... One of the other talks I really liked was "Engines of Empire," a panel on Victorian science and technology, with Chris Garcia of the Computer Science Museum, Dan Sawyer, multimedia artist, producer and open source evangelist, and freelance scholar ...

The Secret History of Silicon Valley: Thu 11/20 Brown Bag Lunch @ Computer History Museum (Mt View)
Master of 500 Hats — ... Next Thursday, November 20th, Steve will be giving a lunchtime talk at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on the ...

What’s that new fish-with-legs sticker on the Popemobile?
GMSV — ... is Fairchild and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, but if you move in certain circuits, you’ll recognize more of these pioneers, like Martin M. (John) Atalla and the late Dawon Kahng, creators of the MOS transistor; Carver Mead, who came up with the VLSI method of chip design; George Heilmeier, who invented the first liquid crystal displays; and Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky, who devised the electrically programmable read-only memory chip. The induction ceremony is scheduled for May 2 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. * Officials of NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

The iPhone Prototype is Gone. But Not, One Hopes, Gone Forever.
Technologizer — ... I’m not arguing that Apple should turn over its archives to the Computer History Museum (although, hey, it sounds like a good idea to me) or that it’s required to share items with people doing serious research on its history right now (although, hey, that also sounds like a good idea to me). But I think people will be writing about Apple and its products a century from now–and even two or three centuries from now–and they’ll understand what they’re documenting far better if artifacts exist somewhere where historians can get their hands on ...

Saving Internet History From Data Rot
Tech Observer — ... on exactly this topic on today's New York Times. Pogue talked to Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. (I was just there for an event two weeks ago, and it's fantastic. I look forward to bringing my daughter when she's old enough.) ...

Review: Google Voice = Delightful Nickname Generator
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... But the voice-to-text transcription for voicemail is a joke -- literally. A rep calling from the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto suddenly started working for the "compete against you museum." My friend "Darren" became "Karen," which isn't a big deal, except for the fact that's my mother's name (awkward!). Sure, a quick listen to the message sets things straight, but the point of the text voicemail is to be able to scroll through your inbox without having to listen. Better yet, my friend "Benita" became "Danny Ten" - which is splendid. Her husband and I agree that not only ...

How a Humble Calculator Forged the Handheld Computer Revolution
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... , and there's a section of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., dedicated to it. First HP Product to Feature Integrated Circuits The HP-35 was HP's first product that contained both integrated circuits and LEDs (light-emitting diodes). Both technologies had been developed in HP Labs, the company's central research arm. This little pocket scientific calculator was a specific project that HP co-founder Hewlett himself has requested. At that time, the only computers that could perform transcendental functions such as trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential ...

Computer History Museum celebrates the semiconductor
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — ... will receive a lifetime achievement award. The ceremony is one of a series of events to be held at the museum next week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit, upon which so much of Silicon Valley was built. One award winner, Dr. Alfred Cho, who is still doing research at Bell Labs, invented molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), a way of layering materials, atom by atom, in a vacuum. Thirty years later, the technique is widely used to create transistors and lasers that are found in cell phones and CD/DVD players and is being used to ...

Computer History Museum makes Apple docs available to the public
Macsimum News — ... The Computer History Museum (CHM) announced that it has, with permission from Apple, posted two historic Apple corporate documents for public access. Apple’s Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan and Preliminary Confidential Offering Memorandum—its initial public offering (IPO) plan—are now available on the Museum’s web site, reports ...

Apple History: First Business Plan, IPO Now Public
Cult of Mac — ... Thanks to the Computer History Museum, Apple buffs can delve into company history with the first business plan and IPO. The 1977 38-page IPO, done in a typewriter-y font with the odd punctuation issue, lists management as the fourth risk factor for potential investors:  “Apple Computers’ Management team is young and relatively in-experienced in the high volume consumer electronics business.” And would you put money into a company headed by these key execs? *  “S.P. Jobs, V.P. Operations, Attended ...

Apple's original IPO and Biz Plan now available...
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... If you've ever wondered how Apple went from two guys in a garage to a multi-billion dollar company, the first steps are now on display at the Computer History Museum. The IPO was donated by Mike Markkula, Apple's first investor, who at one time was president of the company (and owned 1/3 of Apple).  The 30-page business plan was donated by Dan Kottke, Apple’s first employee.  He  built and tested the Apple I computer that Wozniak and Jobs had conceived in Jobs garage in 1976.  ...

Dawn of the Personal Computer: From Altair to the IBM PC
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... This was definitely not the case 35 years ago. A quick tour of the Computer History Museum in San Jose, CA, reveals machines that were as varied and unique as the companies that made them. ...

25 Of The Most Influential PCs Ever Made [Computers]
Gizmodo — A visit to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has Maximum PC feeling all nostalgic about the history of the personal computer. From the Altair to the IBM PC (my first computer), they have put together a closer look at the machines that shaped our home computing experience today. Taken as a whole, they found the most surprising thing to be the sheer variety that existed in the past. They argue that regardless of the hardware or software you use today, most computers are fundamentally the same—but in the days before the internet and the ...

25 Of The Most Influential PCs Ever Made [Computers]
Gizmodo — A visit to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has Maximum PC feeling all nostalgic about the history of the personal computer. From the Altair to the IBM PC (my first computer), they have put together a closer look at the machines that shaped our home computing experience today. Taken as a whole, they found the most surprising thing to be the sheer variety that existed in the past. They argue that regardless of the hardware or software you use today, most computers are fundamentally the same—but in the days before the internet and the ...

Dawn of the Personal Computer: From Altair to the IBM PC
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... This was definitely not the case 35 years ago. A quick tour of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, reveals machines that were as varied and unique as the companies that made them. ...

Intel Research Day
dailywireless.org — ... The above map shows the Portland, Oregon, region. The technology was one of many Intel Labs projects that researchers demonstrated at Intel Research Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., on Thursday. ...

Classic Computing: SAGE Protected US From 1960s Invasions [Retromodo]
Gizmodo — ... a real threat, I would guess because the US is geographically too large to defend. Thank god for the great vastness of the Pacific, the Atlantic, Canada and Mexico. The SAGE was retired in 1983 when ICBMs rendered them even more obsolete. But before then, adding shame to uselessness was the fact that in the end, the only place to get SAGE replacement tubes was from the Soviet Union itself. The industrial war machine is a complex and non nonsensical thing. [Computer History Museum, Wikipedia ...

Computing Classic: The 1954 SAGE Protected the US From Invasions That Never Came [Computing Classic]
Gizmodo — ... to defend. Thank god for the great vastness of the Pacific, the Atlantic, Canada and Mexico. The SAGE was retired in 1983 when ICBMs rendered them even more obsolete. But before then, adding shame to uselessness was the fact that in the end, the only place to get SAGE replacement tubes was from the Soviet Union itself. The industrial war machine is a complex and non nonsensical thing. Sometimes that complex nonsensicality costs several billion taxpayer dollars. [Computer History Museum, ...

The Computer History Museum
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Apple I: The Start of Something Huge [Computers]
Gizmodo — ... is a photographic exploration of the Computer History Museum's collection, highlighting some of the most interesting pieces in the history of computers. These excerpts were used with permission of the publisher. ...

Apple II: The World Catches On [Computers]
Gizmodo — ... is a photographic exploration of the Computer History Museum's collection, highlighting some of the most interesting pieces in the history of computers. These excerpts were used with permission of the publisher. Special thanks to Fiona! ...

Phreaking the Phones: Before there Was Hacking [Giz 79]
Gizmodo — Before there were computer hackers, there were phreakers. And before there were macs, Jobs and Woz kept themselves busy building their own blue boxes (Above) which would emulate precise control tones to seize control of the phone system. They were inspired by this Esquire article from 1971 called Secrets of the Little Blue Box, by legendary writer and typewriter fetishist Ron Rosenbaum. Woz's boxes were simply, by standards of circuitry, but the original creator of the Blue Box, built his with failsafes in mind in case the law got too suspicious. He sighs. "We ...

Tandy TRS-80: The Budget Computer [Computers]
Gizmodo — ... is a photographic exploration of the Computer History Museum's collection, highlighting some of the most interesting pieces in the history of computers. These excerpts were used with permission of the publisher. Special thanks to Fiona! ...

Cray-1: The Super Computer [Computers]
Gizmodo — ... is a photographic exploration of the Computer History Museum's collection, highlighting some of the most interesting pieces in the history of computers. These excerpts were used with permission of the publisher. Special thanks to Fiona! ...

Brilliant But Doomed: Technology’s Most Magnificent Failures
Technologizer — ... What it was: English mathematician Charles Babbage’s design for a five-ton machine with 8,000 mechanical parts that would calculate and tabulate polynomial functions–an improved version of his earlier ...

Thoughts On The Future From Two Guys Who Invented It
SiliconBeat » O’Brien — ... Last week I spent an evening at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View attending the IEEE’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of ARPANET. The event featured a panel with three prominent names: Dr. Lew Terman, 2008 IEEE President and CEO Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Howard Charney, Senior Vice President, Office of the President, Cisco While delving into some of ARPANET’s history, the panel explored the future of the Internet. And I left with a ...

Gifts for Retro-holics Who Yearn for the Old Days [Giftguide]
Gizmodo — ... revel in the fascinating history of technological advancement. Right now, they're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit, examining the history of computer chess and visible storage, and remembering Charles Babbage, inventor of the first automatic computing engine. Among those constantly rotating exhibits are jewels like the Cray 1 supercomputer, the world's first ethernet cable and a Tandy TRS-80. Free admission [Link; CHM Site] DON'T BUY A Modern Smartphone: Anybody who yearns ...