Computer History Museum

Type
Physical Object
Catalogue number
102633815
Foot pedal controller

Object consists of CPU with built-in monitor, keyboard and carrying case. The Phillips/Maganvox VideoWriter was a stand alone electronic typewriter and word processor with integral floppy disk drives and thermal printer.

Type
Physical Object
Catalogue number
102646025
VideoWriter

Object is a computer with integral keyboard and micro-cassette drive, plus a plug-in module labelled 16K BASIC.

Type
Physical Object
Catalogue number
102647085
Phillips P2002 computer

The object is a box with a removable disk slot and two indicator lights on the front. On the back are two SCSI interface connectors and a SCSI unit select dip switch. Along with the power socket is a 110/220 voltage select switch.

Type
Physical Object
Catalogue number
102735076
RRD40 optical disk storage

The object is Palm development device. The object includes a removable stylus.

Type
Physical Object
Catalogue number
102741594
Palm Jabba

Hans Stetter was born in Germany and lived in Munich until the age of 35. Although he spent one year as an undergraduate exchange student at the Agricultural College of Colorado and was awarded an honorable mention in the Putnam exam. He was always confident in his mathematical talent even before he entered school, and was self-motivated in his mathematical studies. He attended the Technical University of Munich with the goal of becoming a school teacher. After obtaining his Masters, a crucial event changed his life. Robert Sauer offered him a research position working on numerical methods and computing for fluids. He describes his work with Sauer, and discusses the beginnings of numerical analysis and computing in Germany. After, his thesis on numerical flow about wings, he worked on numerical methods for hyperbolic partial differential equations, and then switched to numerical methods for ordinary differential equations which he found underdeveloped at the time. He comments on the impact he had on this field, and discusses the role of numerical experimentation and intuition in numerical work. In the last part of the interview, he describes his introduction to and subsequent work in numerical polynomial algebra.

Type
Document
Format
PDF
Catalogue number
102746810
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Professor Zemanek begins by discussing fortunate circumstances that allowed him to finish his studies in telecommunications engineering in Vienna at the beginning of World War II before joining the army as a telecommunications soldier in Greece. He became a teacher in the telecommunications school of the German Army in Salonika. He was able to get out of the Army, begin his diploma work, and join a radar development team in the Air Force. He was able to travel and eventually completed his diploma work under the supervision of Richard Feldtkeller at the Technical University of Stuttgart. However, he submitted his work to the University of Vienna. He discusses the relative lack of progress in design of filters in Germany due to the slowness in adopting mathematical techniques. After the war, he began work on computers. Zemanek discusses the development of computers and computer architectures, and the philosophy of computing in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. He describes his role in development of the first fully transistorized computer in continental Europe the Mailüfterl. He comments on the history and philosophy of computing, information theory and artificial intelligence.

Type
Document
Format
PDF
Catalogue number
102746814
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The object is a rectangular box. There are two green LEDs and a locking handle on the front. On the back are four-pin molex connector and a 96-pin connector.

Type
Physical Object
Catalogue number
102807271
Power supply

The object consists of a Palm with a front leather cover that flips open. The cover has a window 0.5 by 1.5 in the upper half. At the bottom is the palm logo. For the Palm itself: On the front top left is the word Palm. On the top right is JABBA. The center front has a screen. At the bottom of the screen is a rectangle with two buttons on either side of the outline of a rectangle. The outlined rectangle has "abc" on the lower left and "123" on the lower right. To left of the outlined rectangle is a house icon and below is a menu icon. On the right of the rectangle is a calculator icon and below that is a magnifying glass icon. Across the bottom front of the Palm is a row of push buttons. The first button to the left is a calendar icon. The next button is a phone. Next are two scroll buttons vertically placed for scrolling. The next button looks like a world and the last button looks like a cell phone. On the left side of the Palm case is the attachment to the front cover. On the top of the case is a head phone jack and an infrared communication port and also a bump for an antenna. On the right side of the case is a channel for the stylus with the stylus inserted. There is also an SD card slot and a power button. On the bottom of the case is a serial port connector. On the back of the case are three labels. The top label is white with the IMEI number, the words "PALM DVT1". In the center is a label with the information recorded above. To the left of this label is pin hole for reset. Below on the left is an SD card icon. To the right of that icon is a label with information recorded above. Below that label in the center in relief are the words "Palm powered (TM)".

Type
Physical Object
Catalogue number
102807355
Palm Pilot Development Prototype DVT Palm VII

Object has two metal carrying handles on the side. Has a screwdriver and tool kit in a "trap door" recess inside th machine - screwdriver blades and brass objects for use as decimal point indicators on the result register are in an old tin tobacco box. Metal label attached inside Eugene Dietzgen Co. Chicago, New York, San Francisco, New Orleans.

Type
Physical Object
Catalogue number
B143.81
Bunzel calculating machine

<p>Light colored woden box with "874" stamped into the lid.</p>

Type
Physical Object
Catalogue number
B371.86
Planimeter

Includes bibliographies.

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102622316

This is a color image of a chess pioneering group in Vienna, Austria. The caption at the bottom edge of image is labeled "Ben Mittman, Monty Newborn, Tony Marsland, Dave Slate, David Levy, Chaude Shannon, Ken Thompson, Betty Shannon, Tom Truscott". Written in black pen on bottom right corner of label is "VIENNA 1980". In the background is a large painting hanging on the wall.

Type
Still Image
Format
Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102665753

This is a black and white image of Betty Shannon (left) and Claude Shannon, both seated with several instruments on display on the table in front of them. Betty is holding a Swiss Army knife in front of her. Both are smiling at the camera.

Type
Still Image
Format
Photographic Print
Catalogue number
102665758

Type
Document
Catalogue number
102774226