I have an hour or two to kill in Bozeman so I found this hole in the wall computer history museum and...wow. This is not what I expected. +

Computing starts with writing, so what if we had 4000 year old Mesopotamian tablets, sure ok.

First folio Shakespeare, also a thing

You could hardly call it a history museum if on the outskirts of a town of <50K you didn't have the Principia

My friends talk about the PDP-11 but obvi that's too newfangled for a serious history museum

What if we had a first-run chip from the first microprocessor

It's cool when your pal Woz gives you a computer

Moore's law

Detail from a plan for the 486 microprocessor; the whole is perhaps 3x5 feet, for a 6.8sq in chip

The 1965 disk behind me holds 8MB

This watch has been to the moon

32K of RAM, from the 1960s

First automated DNA sequencer, 1986. My dad got his PhD in genetics over a decade prior. Just imagine.

I give up. How does this museum even exist.

It is totally reasonable to have an autographed Claude Shannon

Hello robot friends (and enemies)

This computer did not go to the moon. It just helped people go there. Also 32K.

This is like github but for Apollo 4

Did you require nostalgia

I do not know who this computing nun was but I am here for her

Yes I am totally taking a selfie in this particular exhibit

I cannot believe this place even exists

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