Since I was in the area, I decided to take a trip down to the Computer History Museum in Sunnyvale, California. I also could've made a pit stop by Google's HQ and Apple's HQ for maximum geekiness (well and maybe glance at Oracle and Adobe's HQ), but nah. It's a nifty place if you get the chance to go. Just don't expect much out of the gift shop, there's a lot of cringe-worthy "geeky" stuff. But then again, maybe you're into that sort of thing :3

Since a picture dump really isn't feasible, I thought I'd share some images that sparked fun thoughts in my mind.

How's this for your computer's battlestation? (Control station for the UNIVAC)

Programmers, remember to give respect where due!

Light gun tech, in the 50s. Makes me wonder if they did it because they knew the station operators would be bored out of their minds and pretending to "shoot down" bogeys would be fun.

It's the Apollo Guidance Computer. Most of it if not all of it. This thing's an impressive piece of work.

Check out that SSD from 1990 (top right)

I'd probably vote for him.

"Stealing" software was a big thing up until the 80s apparently. But then again, the idea that a third party could write software for a multitude of systems wasn't really heard of.

Imagine if this were your CPU. o_O (Also 15 GFLOPS would've been attainable by CPUs within 10 years and GPUS within 8 or so)

Here's a Cray-1. It peaked at 160MFLOPS. To put that in perspective in terms of today's technology, a GeForce GTX 1080 is about 63,480 times more powerful. Okay, smartphones in 2013 were 10 times more powerful. It only took about 40 years to get there =3

"We got these SNES carts, what do we do with them?"

Check out that Pentium Pro in the right of the center row. The bottom right is a Pentium 4, which is about the size of every Intel desktop processor since.

It's the Google car! It was okay.

This is an analog computer. You think your computer has bad cable management?

Hm, I wonder if AMD got the name "ACE" from this...