Brian--
Thanks for the compliment about the Intel museum, Tim Ventimiglia and I
designed it in 1999-- small world.
Shat you are looking for is the Computer History Museum, have you seen them?
We talked a bunch to them when working on Intel, and as far as I understand
they are basically the only place that has consistently archived
technologies as they have come and gone. Their collection is incredible,
including the first prototype mouse developed at Xerox PARC, and goes back
as far as the 1870's census computer.
I have heard that they just opened their collection as open storage, so its
semi open to the public, but their website www.computerhistory.org/ is a
great substitute, check out the timeline.
Best,
Jake
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>From: human being <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Keyboards in exhibits
>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:41:59 -0500
>
> Thank you Elizabeth for the exhibit information. The Intel Museum
> in San Jose is also a great place, as is the Tech Museum there.
> This made me wonder if maybe such collections do exist privately,
> either within corporations or CEOs or others who are in the industry
> and helped develop the technologies used today. There are many
> computer collections online (see electronetwork.org/exhibits) yet
> I've not searched how specialized these may be. I am interested in
> the archaeological aspect of today's technologies that rapidly become
> obsolete with the next years technology. Maybe they are all in land-
> fills, yet I hope someone saves a few of each, as someday I believe
> they will be in fine art museums, as moving from pen to keyboard is
> a big leap mapped onto many other, related events. Thanks. Brian
> bc microsite http://www.electronetwork.org/bc/
> ~e-list http://www.electronetwork.org/list/
>
>On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Elizabeth Walton wrote:
>
>>There is an exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum of American History
>>following the evolution of computers with some great artifacts
>>(including the first apple computer, the one built in a garage).
>>
>>Elizabeth Walton
>>www.clotheslinejournal.com
>>
>>
>>-------Original Message-------
>>From: human being <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: 08/21/03 08:28 PM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Keyboards in exhibits
>>
>>>
>>> does anyone know if there has ever been an exhibit of
>>
>> 'keyboards' themselves, as artifacts? such as their changes
>>
>> from typewriters to computing, a wall of keyboard designs?
>>
>> thanks for any info. brian
>
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