In my opinion, supercomputing is a more relevant metaphor for the type of age we're living in, involving neural networks, brute force type machine learning on a big server that we all share, in a sense...the 60's are alive again man!
In my opinion, supercomputing is a more relevant metaphor for the type of age we're living in, involving neural networks, brute force type machine learning on a big server that we all share, in a sense...the 60's are alive again man!
It's not a particularly big museum, but man, what a great collection.
If you're in Seattle the Living Computer Museum is a must-visit.
The museum is shockingly liberal with what they let kids touch, so when I take him upstairs to the historic collection I'm always terrified that he'll break something. Fortunately a lot of that gear from the 60's was built to last and is intimidating to little kids... for example, their punch card reader is bigger than a copy machine, and volunteers hand out earplugs before running it.