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IBM 1401
John describes how a group of committed CHM volunteers found an IBM 1401 in Germany, brought it back to CHM in Mt View and restored it. A second 1401 was later found in a private home in N.Y. and brought back to the museum. Several years later, with additional funding, the IBM 1401 became an…
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What’s It Like to Be CEO of the CHM
John explains why it’s a great privilege to be CEO of CHM with so many committed staffers, volunteers, docents, and board members. He believes CHM will be an international landmark, if it’s not one already. It’s just as important for CHM to be a thought leader in its scope in addition to the subject matter…
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Kid’s Computer Camp
John describes the museum’s multi-dimensional way of telling people about software and making it attractive to kids. A new middle school program called Design – Code – Build using centered around the Raspberry Pi , a credit card size computer. More than 400 students (as young as 11 or 12 years old) will be involved in…
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Len’s current CHM activities, Preserving Software and Planned Blockbuster Software Exhibit/Initiatives
Len explains that in addition to sitting in on “boring” CHM admin committees, his personal project (for last two years) is discovering, preserving and distributing old historic software, which was largely ignored at TCH in Boston. A lot of software can be preserved if we make the effort. Len describes several recent CHM software initiatives…
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Len Shustek on Silicon Valley
Len comments about the transformation of Silicon Valley (SV) from an engineering to software/web & mobile apps centric hub. Any hope that IoT/M2M/sensor farms/robotics will cause SV to build hardware again? Len says there will be a balance of hardware and software but it will never be as it was in the 1970s to early…
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Len on the Future of Hardware vs Software in Silicon Valley
In answer to an audience member question, Len says that the emphasis today is on software and that is appropriate. But it’s a pendulum that swings back and forth. Len predicts that every object we’ll soon own will be a combination of hardware and software designed into small packages.
