So I have spend the last couple of days attending the Internet Identity Workshop out in California. I won’t bore y’all with any of the details, but I will say that the conference was amazing…
Anyhow, the conference was held in the Computer History Museum. At the end of the conference (today) we got to take a guided tour…
The tour was incredible. The museum has a fantastic collection of computers, from the venerable PDP-1 to amazing and beautiful Cray-1. Of course, they also have a great collection of micro-computers and personal computers, including one my first boxes, the Atari 800...
It was just so cool to see the the computing machines, from the abacus, to the slide-rule, to the gargantuan vacumn tube machines, to the big ass Cray super-computers…
Also, it is amazing to think that my Dad’s first job title was “computer”. He literally “computed” all day long with a slide-rule!
Anyhow, the Computer History Museum is definitely worth a visit if you are ever in the Bay Area.
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