Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/18

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Subject: [Leica] OT Computer History Museum
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:47 -0800

This is primarily addressed to SF Bay Area residents, especially 
South Bay ones.
I have been a volunteer at the Computer History Museum, 1401 N. 
Shoreline Dr. in Mountain View since 2003. The Museum is open 9 to 5 
from Wednesday through Sunday. It has the largest collection of 
computer artifacts in the world, and almost exactly a year ago, it 
opened an awesome 20 million buck exhibit that was years in the 
planning and almost a year in execution.

I regularly work there on Saturdays, participating in a 45-minute 
lecture/demo of the Babbage Difference Engine starting at precisely 
1:15. Alternate Saturdays, I also give a tour of the exhibit lasting 
between 45 min and one hour.

If any local LUGers are interested in a private tour, send me an 
email. I would be happy also, if I don't have a conflict to 
accommodate friends on a day other than Saturday, but afternoon 
please--I've stopped being morning person (and the hell with sunrise 
photography}. Also, if it's not more than three people at a time, I 
believe I can comp them in, saving them fifteen bucks admission.
-- 
Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

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