CHM Blog
The CHM blog showcases ideas and insights from our vibrant community in Silicon Valley and around the world. We take you behind the scenes of our programming, collections, and exhibits. Connecting the past to the present and into the future, we decode technology for everyone.
Curatorial Insights
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Curatorial Insights
India’s Tech Innovators: A New CHM Effort
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
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Curatorial Insights
Drawing the Future
Friday, January 16, 2026
The ingenuity of industrial designers like Jerry Nichols helped Silicon Valley embrace mass production in the 1960s and early 1970s, transforming the Valley and the world.
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Curatorial Insights
SmarterChild: A Chatbot Buddy from 2001
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Did you know there were chatbots long before Siri and ChatGPT? SmarterChild came out in the early 2000s, during the heady days of the dot.com boom, and it's an important part of chatbot history.
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Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Fifty years ago, PC software pioneer Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system.
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Curatorial Insights
Amplifying History
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
CHM acquires two early hearing aids that used the new transistor technology of the late 1940s to revolutionize the devices.
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Echoes of History
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Three generations of Sutherland's visit CHM to see Jim Sutherland's 50-year-old creation, the ECHO IV home computer system.
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Curatorial Insights
Weather By Computer
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Using homegrown satellite communications equipment in the early '60s, the CDC 1604 laid the foundation for modern weather forecasting tools.
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Curatorial Insights
A Backup of Historical Proportions
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Discover what surprises await in CHM's release of the Xerox PARC file system archive.
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Curatorial Insights
The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
CHM releases to the public for the first time a full oral history with Ivan Sutherland, pioneer of computer graphics, virtual reality, asynchronous systems, and more.
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Curatorial Insights
The Lisa: Apple’s Most Influential Failure
Thursday, January 19, 2023
CHM publicly releases the source code to Apple's Lisa computer, including its system and applications software.