Fw: Announcing "Computer History Museum", Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:00 PM!

	Meetup Announcement Bay Area Museum Meetup Group
Your group has a Meetup Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:00 PM!

What

Computer History Museum

When

Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:00 PM

Who

At least 16 Museum Enthusiasts.
There's still room for 4 more.

Where

Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd
94043

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Meetup Description

Tour of the Visible Storage exhibit - 1 PM

Artifacts from the computing revolution...
The Computer History Museum's large collection spans the history of computing from pre-computing to supercomputing. The artifacts reflect the astonishing development in technology from gears to vacuum tubes to exotic semiconductors.

Babbage Machine Demonstration - 2 PM
Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long. An identical Engine completed in March 2008 is on display at the Computer History Museum in until May 2009.
http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/

Directions: http://www.computerhistory.org/directions/

This meetup is FREE.

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