Silicon Valley Computer History Museum(Computer History Museum) is located in the San Francisco Bay AreaMountain View, right next to Google's headquarters and just a few blocks from Stanford University.
On a sunny California afternoon, with the breeze blowing through the hills of Silicon Valley and the oak trees swaying their leaves, we once again drove through the dense boulevards, bypassed the South Bay tech companies, and once again arrived at Mountain View, the world's largest computer museum.
Visiting this museum is not only to see the old computers, but also to relive the entrepreneurial stories of the enthusiastic young people in the process of understanding the development of science and technology.
Whether it is a computer enthusiast or a child, walking into this museum, looking at the early computer objects, understanding the history of computer development, comparing the knowledge learned in the classroom, and reviewing the development process of science and technology, will surely deepen the impression of computers, and at the same time arouse and stimulate the interest in computer technology and enthusiasm for scientific and technological innovation.
Founded in 1996, the Computer History Museum is the largest computer history museum in the world, with the largest and most important collection of historical computers and artifacts.
The museum is divided into several different exhibition areas, which display computers and models from different periods, and almost all of the representative computers or devices and models in different periods in the history of science and technology are displayed, and the detailed text introduction further enriches and enriches the computer knowledge of visitors.
The museum is proud of the fact that many of the exhibits are the world's most influential and unique primitive machines and models, and the museum is located where the world's top talent density in the field of computing is the highest, and many of the exhibits are precisely the earliest meticulous masterpieces of the founders of today's most influential technology companies.
Here, witness the world's first electronic digital computer developed by the massive University of PennsylvaniaEniake(ENIAC) component to satisfy the strongest curiosity of all computer enthusiasts. The earliest Apple personal computer placed in the window is not only the greatest comfort to Jobs, but also an irreplaceable courtesy for many fruit fans. Close up to the early products of the ** Fairchild company, no one does not think of the story of the Eight Traitors.
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Today's ENIAC has been split into several parts and displayed in different places.
Above, a component displayed in the lobby of the Penn School of Engineering.
This is the memory made by the eight traitors of Fairchild in 1969, and the capacity is only 256 bits, which is equivalent to 32 bytes, which is far less than 1 meter.
This is a peculiar circular calculator designed by the Americans in 1869, the circle surface is covered with dense numbers and symbols, known as the "father of life insurance", used for complex calculations related to insurance business.
Many of these punching card machines in the museum can still be used, and visitors can operate them on site and experience the fun of the card machines of the year.
The museum also displays Google's early self-driving cars, allowing visitors to try them out, but not driving them, of course.
You need to buy a ticket to visit, and here is what I took when I visited**:
The price has now increased, with the normal price of a one-day ticket being $195, ** is $15;The normal price of a two-day ticket is $295, ** is $25;$6 for ages 8-105 (only available for single-day tickets);Various geek bundles are no longer available.
Tours are from Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
For computer enthusiasts, the Computer History Museum is a must-visit if traveling to Silicon Valley.
If you don't want to waste American knives, Intel headquartersFree museum, which can bring more chip knowledge to computer enthusiasts. The exciting news is that "at the 2021 China Computer Conference (CNCC2021) held in Shenzhen, the China Computer Federation (CCF) signed a contract with Dongyang City, Zhejiang, and the Computer Museum will land in Hengdian Town, Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province", "It is expected that the first phase of the project will be completed and opened in 2024,"When completed, it will be the world's largest computer museum."
We'll see.