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.
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Behind the Scenes
Lit, Shot and Gigapixeled
Friday, September 28, 2012
Day-to-day my job is to help develop exhibits and to make movies and media for museums. What’s the story? What are the main points? What should the visitor remember when they walk out of the exhibit? It’s not always so easy to figure out the core of what you’re trying to represent.
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From the Collection
Simon’s J’s
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
About five years ago, I noticed a box of punched cards that had set aside. It had been sent by high-performance computing researcher Lloyd Fosdick to the Museum’s forerunner, The Computer Museum, in 1985 and somehow made the trip from Boston to California when the collection was transferred.
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Remarkable People
Hans Camenzind: Remembering a “Wizard of Analog”
Friday, September 21, 2012
RIP Hans Camenzind, Wizard of Analog extraordinaire.
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From the Collection
The Honeywell Animals
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
From the Collection
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Behind the Scenes
Crafting a Digital Repository
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The Computer History Museum had its own mini deluge of historical digital data. Our oral histories, lectures, and exhibition videos were usurping our available server space at over 60 terabytes, with another 10 terabytes of historic digital artifacts including images and software. With the aid of grant funds from Googl
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Curatorial Insights, Internet History Program
Who invented which Internet?
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Who really invented the Internet? I was fascinated by the recent kerfuffle over this question, which started with Gordon Crovitz’s July article in the Wall Street Journal. The catch is that even if you could dispel the political agendas of the folks writing (Crovitz wanted to show that private trumps public), or erase
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Behind the Scenes
Conservation of the Fairchild Notebooks
Friday, August 31, 2012
Go behind the scenes of a conservation assessment of a highly anticipated new donation: the Texas Instruments donation of over 1,000 Fairchild Semiconductor patent notebooks.
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Curatorial Insights
The BBC Micro
Friday, August 24, 2012
I love television AND computers and for me the BBC Micro story has both. Besides, I’ve always loved BASIC and in my opinion the BBC Micro is the machine that best delivered BASIC to schools.
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Curatorial Insights, Internet History Program
Going Places: A History of Surrogate Travel and Google Maps with Street View
Friday, June 22, 2012
Choose a spot on a map and you are there—immersed in a panoramic view you can move and zoom. Since 2007, Google Maps with Street View has transformed our ideas about going places, from faraway lands to a restaurant across town.
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Remarkable People
Steve Jobs: From Garage to World’s Most Valuable Company
Friday, December 2, 2011
Remarkable People