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Understanding 9/11tv Computer History Museum CSPAN March 5, 2017 2:02pm-2:14pm EST
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discovered three years before gold was discovered in has huge implications on california in history. the gold rush would not have been economically independent. later visit and observatory east of san jose. late 1900s -- early 1800s it was going through a heyday of discovery. it was the largest of its kind in 1888. >> we begin our trip to the computer history museum first. right now we are in the exhibit and the computer history museum and mountain view california. behind me are 1000 artifacts that healthy history of computers.
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19 exhibit is laid out in galleries which focus on a theme or object ther. one of those is real-time control. we can look at pacemakers for heart, these are computer systems that are not like your laptop. if a pacemaker crashes, you die. item are small ivory counting sticks those are from the 17th century. the early -- latest object we have is a first generation ipod. this?s in 1890 the senses had just finished and that the constitution requires a census to be taking every 10 years.
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the senses in 1890 was not going to be taken in time, they figured out how to do this mechanically. the senses taker would go to the field and asked the usual questions, he would bring those back to the office where they they be transcribed and would transfer handwritten responses to machine readable font. using a blank piece of cardboard the census clerk punches holes in the cardboard which correspond to the answer. relates to human readable form to machine readable form. put the punch cards into his machine which works by counting the holes in the card. includedcensus was can
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-- concluded in about two years. why this is important is because ultimatelyalled ibm dominated and improved upon this for the 20th century. cards where the main way people interacted with computers for most of the 20th century. the memorye are in and storage gallery, behind me is the first hard disk drive or e. who had noby a team formal engineering training. this drive it could replace punchcard, you could just have one of these hard discs. of cards is you have to sort through them, compared to a disk drive you can
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go right to the information you need. it is much faster. well-made its so still functions. we have a team of volunteers who demonstrated once a week. there is 70-year-old data still on the drive. it has not changed, we are still using disk drives today. welcome to the mini computer gallery, these came out in the mid-60's and came out where small businesses could afford them. this was advertised as a kitchen computer in 1970. 10,000 $600. neiman marcus did not sell any. had to figure out a numbering system and had to be able to read the lamps in the code. they then had to program the
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switches and that code. it was almost an impossible tax -- task. we have it here in this gallery to show even though it was not practical, it shows the beginning of people thinking about computers in the home. we are standing in front of the this came out in 1972 it was a revolutionary machine. metaphor withktop pulldown menus. it had rented, email and spreadsheets and word processing. this was in 1972 steve jobs saw this machine and was inspired to create the macintosh from it. the things that we take for can,ed about the garbage pulldown menus, that came from a xerox.
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there is a funny story about the computer wars, steve jobs complained to bill gates that the idea was stolen from apple. bill gates said we both stole it from xerox, that shows the depth that this generated. it continues to affect us all today and the computers we use o. we are in the personal computer gallery, which shows all kinds of computers for -- from microsoft we still use today. the heyday was in the 70's and 80's. run away the most significant one is here. this is the apple one it was designed by steve was the act and steve jobs. these.ld about 200 20 of that is his signature on the top. the apple one was a hobby machine, it was geared at people
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who enjoyed soldering and connecting things to their tv. -- jobs said if we made a normal computer we could sell a lot more of these. the computer that resulted in that was the apple ii. the first apple was traded by the two steve's and it really put them on the map. it came out in 1977. provided color which was quite unusual for the time. very few computers offered color. of the apple ii it keeping apple afloat. the sales of the first two were very disappointed. ii remained apple ii remained a
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product for 17 years. pc when it came out was not the most advanced computer that it had the job of legitimizing personal computers. you could look at these micro processor-based computers as toys or for educational environments but not for business or it it was ibm's entry into the field with the pc that legitimized this. you could actually do business, you could do tasks with the ibm tc. tore initial strategy was have a tech mainframe at all costs. that was generating their profits. computer --m sized
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the ibm pc was something connected to those main frames and could stand alone. networkingin the gallery, what we have here is google's first server. at the time they were a small company, what they did was they built their equipment on the cheap. they went to a store and bought a bunch of ibm circuit boards and mounted them on this. this acts as a search engine did if you did a google search in 1999 or 2000 there is a chance your search went through this machine. this system is made out of corkboard. if you look at the circuit
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boards they are separated i a very thin layer of court. that is the only thing that is keeping the whole thing from bursting into flame. designedarkably poorly , nevertheless for starting a business when you are running it out of your garage or a small business this was perfect for that. one of the things we tell school kids when they come to the museum that the computer is a tool, but with a hammer you can hit someone with it. evil or can be useful, the same thing is with computers. impactseeing the social of how everyone has a computer in their pocket is affecting how we live. there are a lot of negative consequences, insomnia,
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, this sort of spirit he is friendship that occurs on facebook. there is also the pace of life is the greatest risk to human sanity and the next 20 years or so. there is the desire to always be on and responding to text or email. just sit down and watch the sky anymore. a weekend american history tv is featuring san jose, california. the citycently visited to showcase its history. in 1943 the international business machines corporation or theirened
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