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Tracing The Birth And Life Of The Computer

5:08PM January 14, 2011 | Rosa Golijan

From Spacewar! to the iconic Apple II computer, from long-forgotten punch card systems to massive tape drives – the recently renovated Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, has it all. All the amazing little artifacts from computing’s history. More »

MacPaint Now A Museum Piece

7:20PM July 20, 2010 | Gary Cutlack

The Computer History Museum is hosting the original source code of Apple’s ground-breaking visual drawing tool, which arrived alongside the Apple Macintosh in 1984. You can have it for free, if you’re non-commercial. More »

The First Integrated Circuit Chip: Celebrating The 50th Anniversary

10:30AM July 3, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

The Computer History Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit, pictured above, with a multimedia exhibit called “The Silicon Engine” to explain why many claim the IC as one of mankind’s greatest and most important inventions ever. More »

Computing Classic: Video On How The Airforce Protected Us From Attacks In The 1960s

11:40AM June 27, 2009 | Brian Lam

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