California Travel Tips
Computer History Museum in Mountain View
Published on: April 09, 2014
The largest collection in the world of antique computers and computing equipment is located in Mountain View, Calif. Home to LinkedIn, SETI-Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Campus (where 60 of the top minds in computer technology come together to create,) Mountain View is a natural for hosting this museum. Fascinating and full of “I didn’t know that” moments, you’ll see the first modern-day computer invented by Charles Babbage–guess when? The Babbage Difference Engine was designed in 1849!
Here’s some fun stuff in the Computer History Museum:
- Computer chips from the 1950s (1 transistor on a chip) to today (hundreds of millions of transistors per chip)
- Calculators, Punched Card Processing, Mainframes, Minicomputers, Personal Computers, Gaming, AI
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