Played out into 19 galleries each one focusing on a different theme or object from the history of computing. Those gamesone of is realtime control, we look at things like pacemakers for a heart. These are systems that must function, they are not like a laptop that can crash. If a pacemaker crashes you will die. Is a nezdest item perce phone which are ivory counting stick. The most recent thing we have is a iphone. Punchcardre in the gallery. What is this . The bureau of the census just finished the 1880 census as you know the constitution requires a census to be taken every 10 years. The 1890 census was not going to be completed in time. Was completed mechanically. A figure would go out in the field and asked the questions and he would bring those back to the office where they would be transcribed using this device. It uses the handwritten responses in machine readable form. Cardboardone piece of the census clerk punches holes in the cardboard. What he did by doing this was moving them into machinery. Pushthey did that he would the punchcard inside his machine and this work by counting each of the holes in the car. It was a real Success Story and the 1890 census was the completed in about three years. Why this is important is because ibm cameny that became out of this company. They dominate the 20th century. Main punch cards were the way people interact with computers through most of the 20th century. Right now we are in the memory and storage gallery. By me is the first hard disk drive. Teams invented at ibm by a led by a retired schoolteacher who was very good at invented. He had no formal engineering training at all. The advantage of having a hard disk is that it can replace punch cards. Rather than having what hundred thousand prime charts that but because you could have just one disk. The difference with punch cards is you would have to sort through to find the information. Any disk drive you can jump directly to the information you need. It is much faster. This device is so well made it still functions. We have a team of volunteers who demonstrated once a week. What of the things they noticed is that there was 60yearold data still on the disk drive. In basic format the drive has not changed and we are still using the stripes today that have a platter and motor that spins around. Welcome to the minicomputer gallery. Any computers came out in the mid60s and Work Computers that Small Businesses could afford. This was advertises the kitchen computer in 1969. It cost 10,000. Neiman marcus did not sell any. Part of the problem was to program it the user would have different operating system and the ability to read the lamps and that code. It was a almost Impossible Task for people. Generally you would attach a key where do this to make it work. Evenve is here to show though it was not practical it showed the beginning of people thinking about putting computers in the home. We are sending in front of a , it was a but revolutionary machine. This was a system that uses a desktop metaphor. Ethernet, email and spreadsheets and word processing. Spreadsheets and word processing in 1972. Steve jobs saw this machine and was inspired to create the lisa at apple, which became the macintosh. The things that we take for granted, the desktop metaphor, garbage can, pulldown menus, icons on the mac and windows, all came from the xerox alto. Kind of a funny story in the history of computing where steve. Obs complained to bill gates he had stolen the idea of windows from apple. Bill gates said that is not true, we both stole it from xerox. That shows you the intellectual depth that continues to affect us today. We are in the personal computer gallery right now which shows all of the different kinds of microprocessorbased computers for sale, namely in the 1970s and 1980s. The heyday for the personal anduter was the 1970s 1980s. The most significant one is right here, the apple one computer designed by steve bosniak along with steve jobs. They stole they sold about 220 of these. Many were sold in kit form. That is why there is a signature on the top. The apple one was a hobbyist machine. It was aimed at your heads, people that liked soldering and connecting things up to their tv. On the basis of this, steve jobs said if we made a computer for normal people, rather than nerds, no offense, i think we could sell a lot more of these. The computer that resulted from that was called the apple ii. Apple was created by the two steves in the machine that really put them on the map was this one, the apple ii that came out in 1977. It had 48 kilobytes of memory. And provided color, which was quite unusual at the time. Very few personal computers offered color. On the basis of apple ii, apple kept itself of float for many years. The first few years of sales of the lease and the mac were very disappointing and it was only because of the strong apple ii sales that apple was able to stay in business. Remained the apple ii an apple product for an astounding 17 years. A few years later, ibm joined the property join the party. The ibm pc when it came out was not the most advanced to computer but it had a very important job of legitimizing personal computers for business. Until this time, most businessmen looked at these microprocessorbased Computers Like the apple, the tsr 80 and the commodore as toys suitable for home or educational environments, but not for business. It took ibms entry into the field in 1981 with the pc to put a stamp of approval and legitimacy on the pc. You could actually do business types of tasks. Beinginitial strategy, it a purveyor of mainframe systems, was to protect the mainframe at all costs. That was what was generating their profits. A roomnframe computer is sized computer spinning hard drives with people running around. The ibm pc was initially viewed as something that would connect to those mainframes. And only later was it something that could stand alone and be used by an individual. We are now in the networking and the web gallery. What we have beside me is googles first web server. Time, google was a Small Company with limited funds. What they did was build their equipment on the cheap. Went to a local electric Electronic Store and purchased pc compatible Circuit Boards and mounted them to this large cabinet. The cabinet itself acted like a search engine. If you did a Google Search in 1999 or 2000, or is a good chance that your search went through this very machine. Is actually made out of corkboard. If you look underneath all of they pc Circuit Boards, are separated by a very thin layer of court. The court in a wine bottle. That thin layer of cork, is the only thing keeping the system from bursting into flames. It is remarkably poorly designed in a sense. It is not really safe. Starting iness, for business, when you are running out of your garage, this was perfect for them. Things that we tell, especially schoolkids when they come to the museum, is that a computer is a tool like a hammer. With a hammer come you can brain someone over the head or build a house. In one case it is evil and in the other case it is useful. Same with computers. Are seeing the social impact of how everyone having a computer in their pocket is affecting how we live. There are a lot of negative consequences. Insomnia. People feeling lonely in spite of being surrounded by cyber friends. The type of friendship on facebook. You have friends but they are not really friends. Now, i pace of life think, is the single greatest risk to sanity in the next 20 years or so. Impose on, which we ourselves seemingly, to always be on and responding to texts or emails and looking up websites. We do not just sit down and watch the sky anymore. Watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at cspan. Org video tour. This is American History tv, only on cspan three. Artifactsek, american takes viewers into archives, museums, and historic s