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    From Gryphon@VERT/CYBERIA to Froggyme on Mon May 12 09:02:00 2014
    On 05-12-14, Froggyme said the following...

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    By: Knight to Khelair on Sun Apr 13 2014 05:39 am

    I was up in Seattle for the first time over New Years with my wife a kids, and we popped into the computer museum there. I sat down in fr a trash80 and coded up a stupid little program in BASIC. Nostalghia heaven.

    Wow, that sounds better than the CHM in Mountain View, CA. There, everything is touch-free. Their exhibits on BIG computers are
    incredible, but the home computer era section leaves something to be desired. Massive Apple influence and revisionism.

    Is this different than the High Tech museum in downtown San Jose, CA? I'm
    just wondering if they might have moved it.

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  • From Froggyme@VERT/LILLYPAD to Gryphon on Mon May 12 22:23:29 2014
    Re: Computer museums
    By: Gryphon to Froggyme on Mon May 12 2014 09:02 am

    Wow, that sounds better than the CHM in Mountain View, CA. There,

    Is this different than the High Tech museum in downtown San Jose, CA? I'm just wondering if they might have moved it.

    Yes, it's a different museum. A lot of the inventory came from the Boston Computer Museum, and some from a museum that was at LLNL. It's located in the Silicon Graphics building in Mountain View, CA.

    The San Jose museum is pretty fun too. When I visited it though, I was dissapointed because I expected it to be more like the CHM, and this was before the CHM existed (SGI was still there!). So I was hoping for a museum that didn't exist yet.

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  • From Gryphon@VERT/CYBERIA to Froggyme on Tue May 13 08:57:00 2014
    On 05-13-14, Froggyme said the following...

    Re: Computer museums
    By: Gryphon to Froggyme on Mon May 12 2014 09:02 am

    Wow, that sounds better than the CHM in Mountain View, CA. There,

    Is this different than the High Tech museum in downtown San Jose, CA just wondering if they might have moved it.

    Yes, it's a different museum. A lot of the inventory came from the
    Boston Computer Museum, and some from a museum that was at LLNL. It's located in the Silicon Graphics building in Mountain View, CA.

    The San Jose museum is pretty fun too. When I visited it though, I was dissapointed because I expected it to be more like the CHM, and this was before the CHM existed (SGI was still there!). So I was hoping for a museum that didn't exist yet.

    You're making me homesick.

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  • From Froggyme@VERT/LILLYPAD to Gryphon on Thu May 15 22:56:14 2014
    Re: Re: Computer museums
    By: Gryphon to Froggyme on Tue May 13 2014 08:57 am

    You're making me homesick.

    Yeah haha, I miss the bay-area too.

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