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Bruce Damer's visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Behring Center The Information Age Exhibit On January 9, 2003, DigiBarn Curator Bruce Damer paid a visit to the Information Age exhibit at the Smithsonian Instutition's National Museum of American History, Behring Center, in Washington DC. This is an extensive collection which also has a small section on personal computing.

Entrance of exhibit Frustration with the Information Age? Tabulators, phone switchboards Bell system switch Comptometers and other mechanical computing devices Military radar ops Recorders, communications devices IBM Image09.jpg Image10.jpg The Alto from Xerox PARC Another view of the Alto, note image pasted behind glass (famous "rainbow screen") which simulates a running system See our Alto and Rainbow screen here More on the Alto Back to Smithsonian visit page Want to tell us anything more about this exhibit or computing history? Contact us!

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