Bruce Damer's talk on the Digibarn Computer Museum (Palo Alto CA, Jul 2008)
1. Presented by Bruce Damer, [email_address] 30 July 2008 The Digibarn Computer Museum Developing a Practice of Digital IP Archaeology
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6. The Digibarn Computer Museum Purpose: to capture and share the stories and artifacts of the birth and evolution of personal, interactive computing and the digital lifestyle. Time Frame: covering those years in the 20 th Century which created the promethean invention that defines our world in the 21 st Brief Tours of the Physical and Cyber Collection…
7. Housed in 5,000 sq ft barn on 19 th Century Farmstead in the Bear Creek Valley near Boulder Creek Santa Cruz Mountains, California
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37. 1972 Imlac PDS-1D Restoration (Tom Uban - Indiana) PDS-1D CPU Front CPU Left PDS-1D CPU Back CPU Right 15” Monitor Right
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39. Top-down view of original Maze ( 16 x 32 ) MIT Imlac PDS-1 next to E&S LDS displays Imlac PDS-1 at NASA/Ames Maze Moves from NASA Ames to MIT and out onto the ARPAnet J.C.R. Licklider & Al Vezza