Computer History Museum

Discovery Wall

• Commodore PET prototype

  Computer is attached to a wooden base.

  
• Jacquard Loom Model

  This is a small model of a Jacquard loom with paper punch cards. A long metal handle protrudes from the top right. A Bell inventory sticker is affixed to the underside of the wooden base.

  The Jacquard Loom was invented by Joseph Jacquard and first demonstrated in 1801. It is an attachment for powered fabric looms and is considered one of the first programmable devices. It operates via a chain of punch cards that instruct the loom on making intricate textiles.

  The Jacquard Loom is important to computer history because it is the first machine to use interchangeable punch cards to instruct a machine to perform automated tasks.

  
• SAGE Weapons Director Console - With Light Gun

  This console was the user interface to the SAGE (Semi- Automatic Ground Environment) computer system known as the "FSQ-7." Begun in 1952 (and operational six years later), SAGE became the first U.S. continental air defense system, linking dozens of radar stations, weather bureaus, airports, and air force command centers together into a real-time early warning system. It comprised redundant CPUs, modems, "light gun" input, and earned its IBM, its prime contractor, over $1 billion in revenues over the life of the system. Despite it's complement of more than 50,000 vacuum tubes, the FSQ-7 was highly reliable (> 99.97% uptime). Gray with yellow scope

  
• Portable 386 computer
• Apple Lisa 2 keyboard

  Keyboard includes a uders guide in a pocket.

  
• Sonotone 1010 hearing aid

  Object is a small metal box. On the front face is a small grille and a spring clip to hold it in a pocket. On the top left corner is a three-position slide switch. On the top right is a plastic wheel (volume control?). The lower rear case swings up to reveal a battery compartment. The Sonotone 1010 is described in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonotone_1010 It is also mentioned and depicted in: https://hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/General_Info/GenInfoTransBody/info/generalinfo-transistor-body.htm Material provided by the donor includes this text: "First commercial product using a transistor... Two Sonotone subminiature vacuum tubes, NPN grown junction transistor. Sonotone was unique among midcentury hearing aid manufacturers because this company manufactured the tubes and the actual hearing aids. All other major ... companies of the time... purchased the tubes from... suppliers such as Raytheon... Sonotone did not enter the transistor business ... using purchased transistors..."

  
• 4P Opteron mask

  Ofbject is a 4P Opteron mask. White paper taped to plastic holder says 1st K8 rev. A0 polymask 8100AU005A1.

  
• AMD Opteron microprocessor
• Sandy Lerner custom IPO dress

  This dress was designed and made by Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco, for Cisco's IPO in February 1990.

  
• Computer Engineer Barbie Doll

  Object consists of a doll and original packaging, which depicts a computer workstation.

  
• Whirlwind Light Gun

  This is a Light Gun from Whirlwind, with a cylindrical handle, cylindrical barrel, a small hole at the front of the barrel, and a microswitch trigger at the rear of the handle covered with a copper colored metal strip. There is a black front cylindrical sight with a lens at the black connected to the barrel via a small cubical box, and a clear plastic rear sight that had a hole to sight through (broken off). There are two cables connected to the bottom of the handle. One is a coax cable with a male BNC connector at the far end, and the other is has 12 color coded stranded wires with yellowed translucent sheath with a connector that has two rows of 6 bladed pins and 2 round keying pins between the rows. The connector housing also has a potentiometer adjustment protruding from it. Both handle and barrel are gray enamel coated, while the front sight is black anodized. The rear plastic sight was painted red. The handle and the barrel are partially painted black that has been worn away

  
• Lisa 1 Computer

  Lisa 1 Computer, pictured with mouse (102747605) and keyboard (102626733).

  
• Barnard's co-ordinate spiral slide rule

  Cylindrical slide rule similar to Fuller's Rule. "BRITISH MADE" is embossed into the edge of the wooden disc nearest the handle.

  
• Blue Box

  Manufacturer: Spiro

  
• Definicon coprocessor
• Lisa 1 Mouse

  Object is a one button mouse.

  
• 1106 CPU maintenance panel
• Donner Problem Board

  This is a plugboard whose top has a multitude of color coded banana jacks that can be interconnected with separate color-coded wires. These are in turn connect to a pair of Ampenol 26-4100-32P male connector that are located in the back. The color coded jacks are arranged in 10 numbered sections with an op-amp stencil, with multiple jacks connecting both the input (labelled as IC 1 through10) and the output, and additional ground jacks, mutliplier connections on the output of section 5, ARM connections and a 150 V posser supply jack near the output of section 10, and numerous unlabeled gray jacks scattered all around.. In adition there are two female banana jacks at the bottom that addition modfules can plug into. There appear to be primarily for mehcanical support and grounding of other modules plugged into it (like the 3073 potentiometer strip. There is also a small red paper label with "17.6 lbs" written in ink in on the bottom (even though it is only 12 lbs.)

  
• Probe Station

  This object is a Wafer Probe Card, made by Wentworth Labs. It was used for testing Geometery Engines. It has a few custom-added passive components (resistors) and wired attached to it. There is a US Patent number (3849728) printed on the PCB

  
• Ferranti Argus Pegboard Program Storage Tray

  The object is a pluggable module for a process control computer system. The inner edge has 2 edge connectors. The outer edge has two extractor handles. On the upper out edge is hand written "Tray No 73 Dwg No 03/59998-05 |ss|

  
• Aloha System Project XMT BOARD

  The object is a metal box that is open on two sides. Top: The top has 6 rows of 8 holes and 4 screws. There are 4 small sockets for connectors. They are one each red, blue, yellow and black. Right Side: The right side has 3 signal connectors each with a blank label above. In the top left is a label that says "ALOHA E/D 3" The top and bottom conection is broken. Front:This side is open. Inside the box on the bottom part is a label that says "XMT BOARD" Suspended inside is a printed circuit board. It has nine rows of integrated circuits. To the right Is a metal label with letters A to J repeated twice. Between the rows are metal labels with numbers 2 to 50 counting by 2's. In the row between J and A are three sets of resistors with bases of two red and one green. There is a connector with resistors connecting rows B and C at 44 through 50. Its base is red. To the left are two screws - one woith a red wire and onwe with a blue wire connected to something inside under the board.Near the top is a label that says "EDT /03". Near the bottom is a label that says "E/D XMT" On the inside of the left and right panels are connects running to under the circuit board.Bolted to the bottom ia a DC power supply. On the rght is lettering that says "GROUP A and GROUP B.To the left are 3 black wire connectors that say "T1, T2, and T3" whuic have wires leading below the circuit board.. There is also a red wire connector with one wire. Left: On the outside left panel near the bottom on the left is a black knob that says "FUSE FUSE FUSE" On the right is 3-prong socket for power. Around the socket are 4 rivets. On the back is another circuit board similar ro the one on the front. There are 4 sets of resistors with red bases. One has a switch at one end. On the left it says "GROUP A" and "GROUP B" To the right of the lettering are 4 sets of resistes with a red bas. There are also 2 blackwire connectors with a wire leading underneath the cuircuit board, On the right edge of the circuit boad is with lettering that says "EDR/03" On the bottom of the casing is a black label that says "REC BOARD" Bottom: On the bottom are 4 little rubber feet.. There are three holes and 3 rivets.

  
• Power x'plorer

  The object is a gray metal box with large blue heat sinks. On the front there are two DB25 connectors, four 9-pin DIN connectors, two rocker switches, a reset button, a power switch, and a green LED (ON). On the top front there is a white sticker saying, "box 3." The parasytec boxes were used as a parallel compute cluster demonstrating "human-competitive results" from Genetic Programming. A technical description is at https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/2934046.2934146. A massively parallel workstation based on the Inmos Transputer CPU, the first general purpose microprocessor designed specifically for parallel computing systems. Parsytec was an Aachen, Germany-based company, founded in 1985, that got its start via a large federal grant to build a pattern recognition system for industry. CHM’s system was used in genetic programming research, an AI technique using evolutionary methods to improve programs.

  
• Imagination machine micro-computer

  The object is a base computer for the Imagination Machine. It contains a QWERTY keyboard, a place to set a game console, a connection for attaching the game console, a connection for a program cartridges,a casssette tape recorder, a loudspeaker with a volume control, a microphone jack, a power indicator light, an ON/OFF switch, and a 5-pin DIN power input connector.

  
• Prototype Engelbart Mouse

  SRI International’s first prototype computer mouse, by Douglas Engelbart. Constructed by Bill English, the mouse rolled on two sharp wheels facing 90 degrees from each other.

  
• Set of Geometry Engine scraps

  This is a box of cut Geometry Engine scraps from a wafer. There is also Many of these dies have a check mark from a felt pen on them. There are over one hundred pieces. This also includes an SGI version die in a pin grid array (PGA) for testing.

  
• Second Generation Geometry Engine Wafers

  A container of Geometry Engine Second Generation Wafers, made by AMI for Silicon Graphics. In red, on the front of the box, is written "Internal Use Only.

  
• System board for K computer

  The object is a large circuit board in a metal enclosure. The circuit board has many SIMMS and other chips that are covered by copper water jackets. This module is part of the RIKEN K computer, a massively parrallel supercomputer that was once the fastest computer in the world. The K computer was installed at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Japan and operated from 2012 - 2019.

  
• OHME Chess Board

  The object is a wooden Herman Ohme chess set designed and patented in 1954. The chess set was owned by Allen Newell who used it in his work on artificial intelligence.

  
• OHME Chess Board Pieces

  The object is a wooden set of chess pieces of the Herman Ohme chess set. The chess set was owned by Allen Newell who used it in his work on artificial intelligence. The pieces are: 16 pawns, 4 rooks, 4 knights, 4 bishops, 2 queens, and 2 kings.

  
• Geometry Engine CPU Board

  This object is the board that the packaged geometry Engines plugged into, made in ca. 1984 by Silicon Graphics. It has 14 square sockets Geometry Engines. There are a total of 5 connecters. Two edge connectors with 30 and 43 pins respectively, two 34-pin and one 20-pin connectors.

  
• Telex 954 hearing aid

  Object is a small metal box with rounded corners. On the front face is a spring clip for securing it in a pocket. The rear cover can be removed to expose a battery compartment and incidentally "the" transistor. On the upper right corner is a small slide switch. Set into the upper left corner is a plastic knob labeled ON and OFF, presumably a volume control. Information from the donor says in part, "Uses transistor and tube hybrid circuit design... Contains a socketed Raytheon CK718 transistor with date code 329 = 1953 week 29..." Trusting that comment we can date the object to 1953.

  
• Q*bert
• Sega Game Gear cartridge

  The following six (6) game cartridges: Shinobi II; The Majors: Pro Baseball; Ecco the Dolphin; Spider-Man / X-Men; Sonic the Hedgehog; and Joe Montana Football.

  
• Atari game cartridges

  Robotron: 2084 (with game manual); Asteroids* (with game manual); Pole Position II; Ms. Pac-Man (in original packaging); Ballblazer (in original packaging); game manual for Food Fight (no cartridge)

  
• Nintendo Entertainment System game cartridges

  Fifteen (15) game cartridges include: Adventure Island; Bo Jackson Baseball; Contra; Dragon Warrior; Little Nemo the Dream Master; Milon's Secret Castle; Super Mario Bros. 2; Super Mario Bros. 3; Mega Man 3; Totally Rad; Tecmo Bowl; Mega Man 2; NES Play Action Football; Sesame Street 123; and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: the Arcade Game All include original dust cover sleeves.

  
• Tron deadly discs

  Game instructions

  
• Teenage mutant ninja turtles
• Donkey kong
• Might and Magic Book One
• Centipede

  (1) ROM cartridge

  
• SimCity

  Box, SimCity Terrain Editor user documentation, system card, Macintosh addendum, user reference card, Maxis newsletter Volume 1.2 M Issue One, SimCity all-time high scores sheet, and two diskettes.

  
• King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne

  (1) 3 1/2 inch floppy disk (2) 5 1/4 inch floppy disks Instructions Story book Warranty registration

  
• Castle Wolfenstein for Commodore 64

  Item contains: Labeled 5 1/4 inch floppy disk (1). Manual. Registration card.

  
• Tetris

  Registration/warranty card Copy protection card Spectrum catalog '88 Please note that disks and manuals are not present.

  
• Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego

  (1) Program installation disk Box includes CD-ROM Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego in case with instruction manual, installation instructions, and registration card

  
• Prince of Persia

  Manual Survey card Catalog order card Bank transaction card Please note, no disk is present

  
• Nintendo Game Boy

  Nintendo Game Boy, handheld gaming system from 1989. Batteries removed. Gray with darker gray frame around screen; two pink buttons, directional button, and select and start buttons.

  
• Xbox debug kit

  This specialized system allowed game developers for the original Xbox (2001-2005) to create, run and test their software. It is meant to be used with an external Xbox console with a special development BIOS. Such kits were highly sought after by developers who could not develop games for the Xbox without it. Obtaining a development kit early in the software creation process could mean the difference between commercial success or failure.

  
• PlayStation 2

  Sony PlayStation 2, black conole with "PS2" in purple-blue letters on the top. "PlayStation" is carved into the device below "PS2".

  
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - for PlayStation 2

  Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for PlayStation 2. Case, disc, an instruction manual, and a poster that shows the Bay Area-based geography of the game on one side and mimics the cover of the case on the other side (various scenes from the game). The instruction manual is a small booklet with an orange cover. The case also has a slot for a memory card, but this item was not included with the rest of the objects.

  
• PlayStation 2 Controller

  Black Sony PlayStation 2 controlleer with attached connector for use with PS2.

  
• Sega Genesis controller

  Black Sega Genesis Controller, with cord

  
• Mortal Kombat Sega Genesis Game

  Mortal Kombat Sega Genesis Game in original case. Includes cartridge and instruction manual (total of 3 items). A silhouette of a dragon in a black circle is on the front of all three items. The word "MORTAL" is above the dragon; the word "KOMBAT" is below the dragon. There is an MA-13 (Parental Discretion Advised/Mature Audiences" note in the bottom right corner of the case.

  
• HALO: Combat Evolved Game for Xbox

  HALO: Combat Evolved game for Xbox. Three items: the case, the disc, and the instruction manual. The case cover shows a figure with a weapon in green armor; in the background are machines and people in a combat situation. The case cover also notes that the game is rated "M" for Mature audiences.

  
• Xbox Controller S

  Royal blue Xbox Controller, Series S. Circa 2017. The "X" log and "XBOX" are in a round button, in green, in the center of the controller. Four buttons - an orange "Y", a green "A", a blue "X", and a red "B", are to the right. All but one of the buttons are black. Includes a black cord to attach the controller to the Xbox.

  
• Bad street brawler

  (1) ROM cartridge (Nintendo game)

  
• Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom)

  Package had various price sticker labels in yen: "3980" and "4179". Sticker was removed and plastic packaging was discarded.

  
• Taro table game

  The battery has been removed. Artifact consists of object, 26 larger cards and 5 smaller cards.

  
• Atari t-shirt

  On the front of the t-shirt is printed "Atari Columbia Warner Fereral credit Union". On the back of the t-shirt is printed " Credit Unions do it with more interest".

  
• Commodore joystick
• Commodore 64
• Nintendo Family Computer

  unit only, no cables or manual

  
• Intellivision video game system

  Object consists of main unit, two attached contollers, tv antenna switch and orignal box. Dimensions are of box only.

  
• Chess Challenger
• Power Glove
• Super glove ball

  (1) ROM cartridge (Nintendo game)

  
• Aerosmith 'Gibson' guitar

  The underside of the object has a "Guitar Hero" logo, and the nameplate describes the object as, "Les Paul Wireless Controller for Xbox 360."

  
• Panasonic Q Game System
• Imagination machine game console

  The object has two buttons for Reset and Power, a Power On indicator,a slot for connecting to the micro computer, two places to set the game controllers, two attached game controllers on 68" long cables, an attached 163" lomg cable with an RCA plug, and a power connector. There are two game controllers each have a 10-key numeric keyboard with two additional buttons labeled Cl and En and a joystick having four directional arrows.

  
• Blackjack game cartridge

  The object is a blackjack game cartridge to be used with the Imagination Machine micro-computer.

  
• Nintendo Gamecube controller
• Astro Boy Figure

  Object is a plastic doll in the form of the Astro Boy anime character, however some external parts are clear revealing a robotic interior. Several flesh-colored parts are separate can be substituted for clear parts to make a complete figure.

  
• Manchester Mark I Valve/Tube

  The object consists of a Machester University Mark I Valve/Tube.

  
• ENIGMA rotor

  This is one of four rotors related to an ENIGMA encryption/decryption device, but does not match the serial number of B197.81 nor B198.81. Stamp of approval (inspection) marked with a Nazi swastika. Per Ralph Simpson of the Cipher History Museum, "The 'A' indicates use by the German Army and Air Force (Navy used 'M' for marine)." [2016-05-09].

  
• Tobermory Perceptron Analog Core Memory

  Object is a printed circuit board (PCB) panel with rows of magnetic cores installed. On the core side, "CORNELL B-B" is etched on the PCB. There is a piece of tape on the back with "8 & 9" written on it, and "LAND" written on the board in marker. This analog-biased core memory plane was used in the Adaptive system ("A-unit," in modern terminology the "hidden layer" of a simple three layer feed forward neural network). Each core stored the weight of a connection between neural units. Being analog, the output response from each core had a roughly sigmoid or S-shaped curve to it, rather than a flat square jump as a digital core might have, and about a hundred different states could be read out of each core. This was a component of the Tobermory Perceptron, the second of two perceptrons implemented in hardware by Frank Rosenblatt and his collaborators at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, NY and Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, the other being its more famous precursor the Mark I Perceptron. Unlike the Mark I, which was built to model visual perception and pattern recognition, the Tobermory was built to model auditory pattern recognition.

  
• Echo main PCB

  The object was described by the donor as main PCB of Echo.

  
• Echo Development Model

  The object is a plastic perforated cylinder. It is a prototype device. There are two buttons at the top, one with a microphone logo, and one with a dot. Handwritten on a paper label is, "Baseline 2048." Two small circuit boards project from the base. One has a slide switch and a mini USB connector. The other has a RJ-45 connector, a mini USB connector, and a DC power connector.

  
• Teddy Ruxpin Toy

  Object is a teddy bear doll dressed in a brown onesie with a light brown vest. Under the vest in the back is a volume-on/off control and a cassette player. (Cassette removed, see linked parts.)

  
• Pepper Robot

  Per Wikipedia: Pepper is a semi-humanoid robot manufactured by SoftBank Robotics, designed with the ability to read emotions. It was introduced in a conference on 5 June 2014, and was showcased in SoftBank Mobile phone stores in Japan beginning the next day.

  
• Jibo Social Robot

  Jibo was a family robot competing with Amazon Alexa and Google Home.

  
• TrueNorth Chip and Chip Array Display

  The object is self-described as IBM Neurosynaptic System, 4 to the power 14 processor. The object is described as, "A radically new brain-inspired architecture for the era of cognitive computing." "1 million neurons 256 million (4 to the power 14) synapses 70 milliwatts 5.4 billion transistors Demonstrated in 2014."

  
• AMD MI300X Chip

  Per the AMD website: AMD Instinct MI300X Series accelerators are designed to deliver leadership performance for Generative AI workloads and HPC applications. High performance computing (HPC) is a class of applications and workloads that solve computationally intensive tasks. This device is a partially-packaged processor for the AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator. One side shows the collection of silicon chiplets that compose the processor, with a reflective silver coating. This side of the device does not have the packaging lid installed. The reverse side of the processor shows a large array of gold rectangles, the land grid array used for interconnecting the processor to a socket holding it on a board. The smaller array of rectangles at the center are decoupling capacitors, having to do with isolating power from one portion of the processor from another. This processor is made of multiple chiplets performing computations, memory, and input/output functions, stacked in three dimensions, and all resting on a common silicon substrate. Together, they boast 153 billion transistors build using TSMC's 5nm process. The processor holds 193GB of memory, and its capable of petaflop performance. It is a competitor to similar NVIDIA accelerators aimed at the artificial intelligence and high performance computing markets.

  
• NVIDIA H100 Chip and interface card

  The object is the NVIDIA H100 Chip mounted on a very densely packed printed circuit card having numerous soldered components and a daughter card.

  
• Writers Guild of America picket sign

  The object is a picket sign. Written on one side is, "WRITERS GUILD ON STRIKE!, Don't let bots write your shows." There is an image of a robot. Written on the other side is, "WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA ON STRIKE!

  
• fx-7000G Scientific Calculator
• Tamagotchi Toy

  Object is a tamagotchi sealed in the original box.

  
• Apple LISA Prototype - CPU

  This is a prototype Apple LISA computer without the plastic shell. IT has a custom plywood foot on the left side (only)., 2 5 1/4" floppy drives on the right and a 12" diagona CRT monitor on the right. The main logic board is mounted vetically in the rear, with has a daughter card labeled "COP 421 SIMULATOR" plugged into it. The main logic board plugs into a motherboard which has 2 female DB-25 connectors, and 1 male DB-9 connector. There are also 3 50 pin female edge connectors for peripherals behind the floppy disks drives on the motherboard. Wired into the logic board are two buttons mounted to the right side of the chassis with (now blank) paper labels. The front has an on/off switch and a potentiometer shaft under the CRT, and a 1/4" audio jack, matching the keyboard connector, unerneath the floppy drives.

  
• Lisa Prototype mouse

  One-button mouse with a black connector cable having a 9-pin male connector with 8 pins extant.

  
• Vintage collection of materials regarding Karel Capek's play "Rossum's Universal Robots"

  Includes: The Reandean News Sheet with which is incorporated the St. Martin's Theatre [London] Programme a full page from True Story, Feb 1923 an article from MD magazine of June 1965 a six-panel cartoon titled "If we had 'robots' to-day" several reviews for the Basil Rathbone- Frances Carson version of RUR

  
• Apple Macintosh Motherboard

  The motherboard is in a square box labeled "128K".

  
• Mac Prototype Board

  The object is a circuit breadboard with 50-odd IC sockets, most populated. The pins on the reverse side are beautifully wire-wrapped -- the workmanship is highly professional. Paper label (was attached) reads "MAC Wirewrap Prototype #4 A52".

  
• Apple Macintosh advertisement

  Additional title: If you can point, you can use a Macintosh

  
• Macintosh M0001 computer

  Paper attached reads: "Macintosh, not a plus(800k disk drive), 128 Enhanced (upgraded to 512), w/ External Drive (400k) internal mac drive ~400k drive."

  
• Apple Macintosh mouse engineering prototype
• Mac The Rapper: What is Love?

  An original song performed by an Apple Macintosh computer, written and produced by Bob Mithoff. Lyrics include reference to the Parents Musical Resource Center (PMRC).

  
• Macintosh t-shirt

  "Bongo's Dream Dorm" illustation by Matt Groening is printed on the front of the t-shirt. "Macintosh. Part of every students wildest dreams" is printed on the back of the t-shirt.

  
• Apple Mani Stone

  Mani Stone with Apple logo.

  
• SAGE logic module

  SAGE vacuum tube module, object has 5 vacuum tubes.

  
• Science Experiment Kit

  Object is labeled speech synthesis "EXPERIMENT IN ELECTRONIC SPEECH PROCUCTION, MADE AVAILABLE BY YOUR TELEPHONE COMPANY, BELL SYSTEM SCIENCE EXPERIMENT NO. 3"

  
• Apollo Guidance Computer logic module
• "Blue-Box" toy robot

  Black toy robot with two arms and wheels on the bottom. Multicolored sticker on front. Light up base and face.

  
• Transistor

  The object is a low power, low noise NPN planer transistor made by Fairchild for the US military for use in psce, missile and other electronics.

  
• Fairchild jacket

  Racing-style jacket given to all of the attendess of the 1979 or 1980 Fairchild Sales Conference at Tahoe Incline at the Hyatt. Jacket has detachable inner shell that is made out of polyester. Outer shell is nylon.

  
• Pace 48 module

  Object is a circuit module bearing an array of 22 adjustable potentiometers and other components. The outer plastic panel reads "+V DFG 16.304-2"

  
• Alto II CRAM Board (EXT MEM) circuit board

  Board has a short ribbon cable attached to its outer edge connector. Some numbers from the ribbon cable connectors. One paper label on one IC. Some hand-soldered engineering change wires on wiring side.

  
• Furby baby

  Object consists of Furby baby and its box.

  
• Armatron robotic arm

  Object is a toy robotic arm with clamp for grasping items. Object consists of robotic arm and base with two joy sticks and power switch. User guide, unapplied stickers sent to archives.

  
• Spotbot
• PSP-2 Portable Speech Processor

  This object is the PSP-2 -- the Portable Speech Processor 2 -- created in late 1978 at Stanford University through the leadership of Professor Robert White. This device was part of a very early experimental portable cochlear implant developed there, which was influential in the overall development of the technology. Approximately one million cochlear implants have been used by the hard of hearing and deaf people. The cochlear implants provide functional hearing, enabling users to hold conversations, develop spoken language skills, and much more. The team at Stanford working on this early, perhaps first, portable, multi-channel cochlear implant at the end of the 1970s was the same team that, in the 1960s, had been the first to implant a multi-channel cochlear implant in a patient, and introduced the term “cochlear implant.” Originally worn in a backpack by its users, this PSP-2 unit was responsible for taking incoming audio and processing it into signals then sent through the implanted electrodes into the user’s auditory nerve. This PSP-2 unit uses several CMOS microprocessors from Intersil (IM6100) and 1K RAM chips to form a parallel, multi-processor system. Programming for the speech processor took place on a DEC PDP-11. A note taped to the top cover of the object says, "World's first portable cochlear implant signal processor + power supply."

  
• Molle portable typewriter

  This object consists of the typewriter and its case.

  
• Vive VR headset

  The object is a VR headset with hardshell head size adjustment and elastic head strap. On the top there is a power button, USB-C connector, and a slot for unknown use. On the bottom there is a female barrel jack, a pair of toggle buttons, an unknown connector labeled developer kit, and an eye piece separation adjustment. An owner's label is on the inside between the eye pieces.

  
• ALOHANET I.C.'s to log in Circuit Board

  The object is a printed circuit board that is part of the Aloha System. The object came with a wooden box labeled "I.C.'s TO LOG IN"

  
• Kenbak-1

  This item was the 1st place winner of the PC Contest.

  
• Archistrat 4S server

  Object is a floor standing server is a curved enclosure. The front door lowers to reveal a floppy drive, and several other storage drives. A removable top cover reveals fans, SCSl, modem, printer, keyboard and mouse, and serial connectors. There are also six slots for I/O cards, two of which are empty. There is a phone modem, display card, network card, and a card with two fine-pitched connectors. A removable rear door reveal a motherboard, and four processor slots, two of which have cards. At the bottom is a fan, power connector, and switches. Top cover locks and keys are storedwith unit.

  
• ECHO-IV Home Computer CPU

  The object consists of a number of components housed in a wooden case. The case is divided vertically into two compartments. The CPU was likey operated using a numeric keypad and keyboard. The compartment in the front on the left has a status display and 8 rows of modules, most of which are missing. Two rectangular holes have been cut into the right side of the wooden case. On the front right are 3 rows of modules and a number of controls, meters, and fuses. Sample labels include MAGNETIC TAPES, CLOCK, PUNCH, KITCHEN CONSOLE, TRUNK, FUSE, and BLOWERS. On the back left are the back side of the module racks and various hand-wired bundles. On the back right are the attached power cord and a blower.

  
• Roadrunner Tri-blade

  The IBM Los Alamos National Laboratory Roadrunner Triblade is unique in its influence on computing history both as the fundamental processing unit of the world's first Petaflop computer and in terms of its applications and role in scientific exploration.

  
• Teletype ASR 33 Terminal

  The is a Teletpye model 33 data terminal. The keyboard is QWERTY with special keys HERE IS, RETURN, RUBOUT, REPT, BREAK, ESC, and LINE FEED. Main characters and shift characters are molded in white, and control characters molded in red. There is a cover over the print mechanism with a roll of paper behind it, The cover has a molded metal label "DTC Data Terminals & Communications, San Jose, California" Below the keyboard, at the front, is a metal panel with the same information printed on it, along with a rotary switch with "Line", "Off", "Local" positions On the left side is a paper tape reader and punch. The punch as a cover with buttons "REL.", B. SP.", "OFF, and "ON" The reader has a lever labelled "START", "STOP", "and "FREE". There a blank panel to the right of the keyboard for other optional accessories. The rear has the AC power cord, and and a pair of 15 pin femal Molex connectors with 5 pins and 6 pins populated, and a mated male/female pair with 8 and 5 pins populated. This artifact is branded as a DTC Terminal, but was manufactured by Teletype Corp.

  
• Selecterm accoustic modem

  Acoustically-coupled MODEM. Silver label affixed to middle-top reads "SELECTERM / MODEL 701-R SERIAL 5538 / FOR SERVICE CALL 246-1300 / EQUIPMENT IDENTIFICATION TAG". A typed paper label affixed to bottom reads "WOODSTOCK SERVICE CORPORATION / SELECTERM OMNITEC CPLR S/N 5538 / #136".

  
• CALMA dual display module

  The back has two outlets: 110 VAC and 220 VAC. The screen sizes of the monitors are 11" and 18". The bottom of the object has a swivel mounting base and a 50-pin connector attached to a ribbon cable.

  
• CALMA cabinet with tape drive

  Object is a metal cabinet containing a 9-track tape drive. The drive has a glass door covering two reels. The panel has an on/off switch and eight buttons for tape functions such as load, rewind, etc.

  
• CALMA graphics tablet

  16 inch diagonal graphics tablet with a raised section in the back with 4 toggle switches and 3 lights in front. On the back is a 4 pin female Winchester connector for stylus, 9 pin male Winchester connector, slide switch and a 50 pin female Amphenol connector.

  
• Stylus for CALMA graphics tablet

  Plastic stylus at the end of a 4 foot cable with 4 pin male Winchester connector.

  
• Power Supply

  Object is a metal box. On the two long sides it has large transistors on heat sinks. On one end is a panel with a terminal strip, a label, and screwdriver adjustments for "O.L. ADJ", "VOLT ADJ", and "O.V.P. ADJ". There is no on/off switch.

  
• Tic-Tac-Toe computer

  The object is a tic-tac-toe machine that represents the kinds of processes that can be built into telephone systems. It illustrates how relay-type equipment (like that used in telephone systems) makes logical decisions in connecting one caller with another.

  
• Carroll punched card printing press

  The object consists of the tabulating card press, a detached dust bucket, and a bag of spare parts zip-tied to the object.

  
• Whirlwind switch panel

  Object comprises several switch and button panels mounted as a group on a heavy metal frame. On the left frame member is hand-written in red grease pencil, "Barta Bld Curtis". On the right frame member is hand-written in red grease pencil "A. Curtis Barta Bld". The upper 2/3 of the panel is occupied by 12 vertical strips of buttons. The leftmost strip has buttons 1 and 0 and a button labeled "ERASE". The next 5 strips have 8 buttons each labeled 0 through 7 (presumably octal addressing?). The 7th strip has buttons labeled "OCT ADDR." and "DEC ADDR." and a button labeled "EXAMINE SELECTOR". The 8th through the 12th strips have 8 buttons each labeled 0-7 but with other functional labels such as "DF", "SUPP.FLADS", "SCOPE CALIB.", "EXAM DRUM" and so forth. The rear of the frame presents a plate on which is a 3x19 array of BNC connectors and three long terminal strips. A small paper tag is attached to a wire and reads in pencil, "E1 - MIV".

  
• Flight computer

  The object is a vertical frame of heatsink metal supporting one horizontal circuit board and one vertical circuit board. There is also a small add-on circuit board which is loose. The object is a radiation hardened flight computer for the CASINI mission to Saturn

  
• PLATO III Terminal
• NEAC Magnetic Tape Drive

  This large cabinet is one of several magnetic tape drive units from the NEAC 2203. Multiple tape drives were part of most installations to allow for copying, transferring, merging, and sorting of data. This unit has a full reel of tape loaded. As well as these magnetic tape units, the system included a CPU, a console, a paper tape reader and punch, and a printer. Even though it was sold exclusively in Japan, it could process Western alphabetic characters as well as Japanese kana characters. Only about thirty NEACs were sold. The last one was decommissioned in 1979. The Computer History Museum’s NEAC 2203 managed Japan's first on-line, real-time reservation system for Kinki Nippon Railways beginning in 1960.

  
• Valentine portable typewriter

  Object consists of typewriter and plastic cover.

  
• NES Action Set Zapper

  The NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) Zapper is shaped like a fake gun and is made of orange and grey plastic, with a black chord that plugs into other parts of the system. On one side there is writing in dark orange which says "© 1985 Nintendo Zapper." The NES Zapper is part of the Nintendo Entertainment System Action Set, a game console used to play video games. Nintendo Entertainment Systems were released to a test audience in 1985 in the US and went on to become the best-selling console of its time. It introduced the business model of liscening third-party developers to produce and distribute games. The NES Zapper is a light-sensing video gun that brings sharpshooting accuracy. The copywrite for this object is 1985.

  
• NES Action Set Game Console

  Rectangular-shaped box that is brown and black with red lettering. The front says "Nintendo Entertainment System tm." There are two buttons on the front in red type which say "power" and "reset. Additionally, the front has a game carteradge socket and two game controller jacks. On the right side the console has RCA jacks. On the back there is a DC power brick jack and power socket adapter. There are model numbers and additional information on the bottom of the console. Nintendo Entertainment Systems were released to a test audience in 1985 in the US and went on to become the best-selling console of its time. It introduced the business model of liscening third-party developers to produce and distribute games. The NES Zapper is a light-sensing video gun that brings sharpshooting accuracy. Label on bottom says copywright 1985 patent pending.

  
• Klystron

  The object is mounted on a wooden base.

  
• Analog computer

  The object has a generally rectangular conformation, much wider than it is deep. The horizontal front panel contains a recessed plug board. Behind the horizontal panel is a panel raised to a 30-degree angle so it is easily visible to the operator. The control labels are in English. Examples are SLEW, SLOW/FAST, SCOPE, SERVO, and OPR. ERROR. Numerous cables are connected to the back of the object. Several loose items have been packaged in a plastic bag and attached to the object.

  
• EIMAC R9 4541electron tube
• Silicon mesa transistor

  From Fairchild collection, 1957. Precursor of planar transistor. Cap is detached.

  
• First BASIC interpreter written for the MITS Altair

  The Altair 8800 kit was introduced as the cover story on the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics. Though 'home-brew' experimental systems existed well before the Altair, none had the Altair's wide- reaching popularity. Word length: 8 bits. CPU Circuitry: Intel 8080. Prymary Memory: 256 Bytes. Price: $ 397. The Altair inspired Bill Gates, then at Harvard University, to write a BASIC interpreter so that users could easily program the machine. This was the start of Microsoft. MITS was sold to Pertec and the Altair line did not last long. Paper tape was signed by Bill Gates during his appearance at the museum on Oct. 1, 2004 (acid free pen used for signature). The insrciption reads "Bill Gates Paul Allen MITS Altair 2 Mar 75."

  
• Audion vacuum tube

  Valley Innovation Exhibit

  
• Cryotron board
• TX-0 Transistor plug in bottle modules

  The record contains 28 TX-0 plug in bottle transistor modules. The modules are made up of 2 parts. There is a pin socket with either five or seven pins. There are various components soldered to the circuit side of the sockets. There is also a clear plastic bottle that screws onto the socket and encapsulates the soldered components. Eight of the bottles have five pin sockets with 1 transistor soldered to the inside of them. These 8 bottles have a paper label with a "T-#" number. The paper labels are covered by clear tape. The numbers present are 18, 43, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96, and 97. The bottle labled "T-94" also has "S9" handwritten on it. The bottle labeled "T-18" has a paper tag attached. The tag reads, "4-26-61" and "removed from S27 A16 LRC3; T18 out T6 in." Eight of the bottles have seven pin sockets with 2 transistor, 2 resistors, and 1 capacitor soldered to the inside of them. These 8 bottles have a paper label with a "C-#" number. The numbers present are 117, 116, 123, 122, 121, 120, 119, and 118. Seven of the bottles have five pin sockets with 1 transistor and 2 resistors soldered to the inside of them. The transistors are have a numbred peice of cloth tape on them. The numbers present are 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, and 10. Three of the bottles have five pin sockets with 2 transistors soldered to the inside of them. Two if the bottles have five pin sockets with 3 transistors soldered to the inside of them.

  
• Transformer, A.C. synchronous

  There are 5 black wires attached to the object that are 35 inches long.

  
• CK703 Point Contact Transistor

  The object consists of eight developmental point contact germanium transistors, Type CK703 of CK716. These were the first point contact transistors on the market.

  Per Jack Ward, Transistor Museum: "developmental germanium PNP point contact transistors. 1948-1951. The Raytheon CK703 has the memorable distinction of being the first transistor sold commercially, announced late in 1948. This is very early in the transistor history timeline – the first public announcement of the invention of the transistor was at a June 1948 Western Electric/Bell Labs press conference held in New York City. This first transistor technology was known as point contact, which consisted of two sharpened metallic points held under pressure onto a small germanium block. Severe performance and manufacturing difficulties limited the commercial use of point contact transistors, but these types represent the first transistor technology and are very historic. The Raytheon CK716 was an improved version of the CK703 and became available in 1951. The units in this lot are not labeled by type, and may be either CK703 or CK716. Note the formal labeling identifying these units with a number id. This methodology suggests that these units were used in an engineering study to document performance characteristics, which varied widely in point contact transistors. Very rare (CK703), likely only a few hundred sold. Rare (CK716), likely only a few thousand sold."

  
• 1729 Germanium Transistors

  These are nine cartridge-type, point-contact germanium transistors. Per Jack Ward, Transistor Museum: "Western Electric Pre-Production Type 1729 (9 pieces), developmental germanium PNP point contact transistors. 1951-1953. Shortly after the June 1948 public announcement of the invention of the transistor by Western Electric, this legendary company began development of initial pre-production devices, more robust that the first experimental units, that could be used by device engineers and circuit designers to better understand the performance characteristics of this new technology. One of the first of these pre-production types was the 1729, with exploratory data sheets dated as early as 1951. The nine units in this lot are very early examples of the metal cartridge case style developed by Western Electric for the first production point contact transistors. The 1729 was used extensively for circuit application development purposes and was later released as the more standard 2N25 type.

  One of the units in this lot is hand labeled as “1729” – the other units have more formal paper labels identifying these units with a number “id”. This methodology suggests that these units were used in an engineering study. Rare – these types of pre-production point contact transistors were produced only in the early 1950s and the few remaining units provide a “hands-on” look at the first transistors."

  
• Surface-Barrier Transistors

  Per Jack Ward, Transistor Museum - "Philco Surface Barrier Transistor (2 pieces), germanium PNP surface barrier transistors, early 1950s. Philco was one of several large mid-century electronics firms that moved quickly into the newly evolving world of germanium transistor technology. Philco’s major and most successful transistor product line began with the SBT (Surface Barrier Transistor), which used a unique precision etch manufacturing process to produce very high frequency switching and RF devices. These first SBTs were developed by Philco in the early 1950s under a U.S. Army Signal Corps contract. A unique aspect of these early Philco SBTs was the use of a proprietary “bullet-shaped” metal case, later defined as JEDEC TO-24, a successful Philco implementation of a hermetically sealed case.

  Continued improvements to the precision etch process by Philco supported the rapid development of new higher performance types, including the MAT (Micro Alloy Transistor) and the MADT (Micro Alloy Diffused-base Transistor). These high speed devices were ideally suited for military and commercial applications, including computers, satellites, and RF equipment, and were sold in the millions throughout the 1950s. Rare – the SBTs in this lot are hand serialized and not stamped with production type numbers. These are early production devices, likely from 1952/53, and represent some of the earliest SBTs available."

  
• Texas Instruments Silicon Grown Junction Transistor

  This object is a Texas Instruments silicon grown junction transistor. An image of the state of Texas is on one side of the of metal wire well, and the numbers "903" are on the other.

  
• Silicon melt crucible

  A crucible used for holding the silicon melt in a crystal growing machine, with a bell-shaped quartz cup. The quartz is rough and off white on the outside. "PAT'S GLORY 6-20-68" is handwritten on one side. On the insde of the cup, the quartz is smooth and opaque, with an extant layer of residue.

  
• Cryotron assembly 36

  Object is a pair of thin metal tubes bound together with electrical tape. At the top end there is a 12-pin Jones plug and two BNC connectors. At the bottom is a single cryotron between round phenolic terminals. This object is part of a collection of superconducting electronics devices called “cryotrons" that were created and used by Dudley Buck at MIT in the 1950s.

  
• Minuteman Guidance Computer Amplifier Gyro Module

  Object is a circuit board with discrete components.

  
• VMware 1.0 box

  Box containing the first edition of VMware software, for Windows NT and Windows 2000.

  
• Early ethernet transceiver with cable

  Early ethernet transceiver with RG-11/U cable. PARC engineers Bob Metcalfe and Dave Boggs perfected a local area network for interconnecting computers together called Ethernet. Using a transceiver designed by Tat Lam, it ran at 2.94 million bits per second, linking Alto workstations, laser printers, storage servers and inter-network gateways, into what Xerox envisioned as “the Office of the Future.”

  
• VMware Ready to Run Virtual Machine disc

  3 copies of VMware Ready to Run Virtual Machine software CDs in cardboard sleeves, with red and black graphics, and photograph of company founders. Cover looks like a Kraftwerk album.

  
• Green Heart Bobblehead

  Bobblehead with a large green heart-shaped head and green body, on VMware stand, wearing white"I [heart] VMware" t-shirt.

  
• Turtle stuffed animal

  Green plush stuffed turtle toy (with belly button).

  
• VMware Lego Monster

  Small green and grey lego man with printed face and "VM" on the nose area.

  
• VMware Who We Are, 2013/2014

  Book titled "Who We Are, 2013/2014". Lots of pictures of VMware employees!

  
• Liberation Through Virtualization t-shirt

  Blue t-shift with red, white and blue graphic design showing network components. Text reads "Liberation Through Virtualization". Size Adult XL.

  
• Digicomp DR-70 Astrology Minicomputer

  Object consists of computer, power cable and case. Measurements and weight are of computer only. Donor Nicki Michaels wrote, "This is the actual computer that provided hundreds of charts for Joan Quigley, the [President Ronald and Nancy] Reagans' astrologer, who determined the timing of important events in the Reagan presidency such as: the take off times for Air Force One for important trips, the timing of all presidential press conferences, the signing of numerous anti-nuclear treaties with the Soviet Union. I, Nicki Michaels, provided Joan Quigley with hundreds of charts calculated on this computer for the Reagans over the years. You can view footage of my interview on CNN (5/88) describing the Reagans use of astrology and demonstrating the DR-70 at work here: http://www.audioacrobat.com/playv/WdRjKh2Q."

  
• S-100 bus Z80 board

  Object is an S-100 bus board bearing a Z80 CPU and associated chips.

  
• Ask Computer Systems, Inc. initial public offering (IPO) memento

  The object is a plastic block encasing a miniature version of a prospectus, apparently created as a memento for the initial public offering (IPO) of Ask Computer Systems, Inc.

  
• RCA 301 sales model in travel case

  Used by RCA sales associates to pitch the 301 system to prospective buyers. Models of system components in padded briefcase.

  
• Apple LaserWriter Printer

  Apple laser printer. Manufacter date November, 1986.

  
• Transformer Read-Only Storage (TROS) Module

  This device, called a Transformer Read Only Store (TROS), held the micro-instructions for the IBM System/360 Models 20 and Model 40 computers. It did this by storing the bit patterns for instruction decoding as a series of holes punched in Mylar sheets that are then read by special pulses.

  
• Magnetic Recorder Wire

  Magnetic recorder wire was used prior to the introduction of magnetic tape and after the use of photographic film, primarily from the late-1950s through about the mid-1960s. It's use was nearly identical to analog magnetic tape. This particular recorder wire was used on the X-15 program, after the use of photographic film for recording in-flight data was phased out.

  
• NeXT computer

  The object is an early NeXT computer comprising the system unit (the "Black Cube") with integral optical disk drive. Also included: an R/F Coax cable for a monitor, a power cord, a DB-25 to Centronics SCSI adapter cable, and a SCSI to SCSI-II adapter cable.

  
• Ada, the enchantress of numbers : a selection from the letters of Lord Byron's daughter and her description of the first computer

  Signed by editor, Ms. Toole. Letters to and from the Countess of Lovelace, 1824-1852.

  
• Fan from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Tokyo

  Fan from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Tokyo. In Japan, an article in Kanji was written traditionally from right to left, though it is written and read from left to right now. This fan is designed in the traditional Kanji character set with a calligraphy brush and written from right to left with the meaning of "Artificial Intelligence."

  
• LISP microchip

  A Texas Instrument's "LISP" microchip in a plastic cube. There is a Texas Instruments logo printed inside the cube at the top. Below the logo, printed on three lines, are the words, "WORLD'S FIRST LISP PROCESSOR MEGACHIP." Below the words there is a printed circle. The LISP microchip is set inside the circle. Below the chip, there are two sets of numbers.

  
• Altair 8800 microcomputer

  Machine has a non-standard fan in the back of the machine. There is a silver "MITS ALTAIR 8800 COMPUTER" label on the bottom of the face plate. The Altair 8800 kit was introduced as the cover story on the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics. Though 'home-brew' experimental systems exsisted well before the Altair, none had the Altair's wide- reaching popularity. Word length: 8 bits. CPU Circuitry: Intel 8080. Primary Memory: 256 Bytes. Price: $ 397. The Altair inspired Bill Gates, then at Harvard University, to write a BASIC assembler so that users could easily program the machine. This was the start of Microsoft. MITS was sold to Pertec and the Altair line did not last long. Exhibit label: The Altair 8800 is commonly thought of as the first successful "personal computer" or "PC." Ed Roberts, the creator os the machine, coined the term; he saw the personal computer as distinct from hobby machines, development systems, and industrial machines in that the PC would run programs designed for larger computers while remaining affordable and retaining a conventional console interface. Roberts' company, MITS, built calculators and terminal systems throughout the early 1970s, but "when we found out about the Intel 8080 in late 1973, we started design on the Altair, which was finished in the summer of 1974." Initially, programs had to be entered a line at a time with the switches on the front panel. Soon, MITS and other manufactureres were offering expansion memory boards, and the 4K BASIC interpreter written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen (original paper tape on display at The Computer Museum) became a standard. The demand for the $395.00 machine exceeded MITS' wildest expectations. More machines were sold in the first day (through a Popular Eletcronics cover story) than the company expected to sell during the entire lifetime of the product. Roberts point out that the Altair increased the installed base of computers by 1% each month during 1975-76. The company was eventually superceded by other, more powerful and felxible computers.

  
• Whirlwind indicator panel MOD II

  On the front of the panel are 16 red indicator lights (all are populated) and 16 white indicator lights (all are populated). Printed on the front of the panel are INDICATOR PANEL MOD II and M.I.T. DIGITAL COMPUTER LAB. A plastic label on the bottom front of the unit has "F F STORAGE 4" engraved on it. On the back of the object are 2 terminal strips. Attached to the terminal strips is a board containing integrated circuits; these attachments obviously postdate the original object. A tag attached to the object reads "Whirlwind Stack 3F".

  
• Whirlwind core memory stack A 69

  The memory stack has seven selection pane driver panels with serial numbers 2-8, panel number 1 is not extant. There is a "Selection Plane Current Control Panel " which has dials indicator lights and switches. There is also a "Fuse and Driver Bias" panel as well as two unlabeled panels that contain vacuum tubes, wired components, and coaxial cables. In the center of the stack is a square column of 17 core memory phenolic boards, which comprise 1024 17-bit words. Two of the boards have labels reading "side B Y axis; Even-Right Lines; Odd-Read Lines 0-31" and "Side D Y axis; Even-Read Lines; Odd-Right Lines 0-31." Each side has a number label 1-4. Above the column there are four phenolic boards with components on them, which are labeled types A-D.

  
• Whirlwind 303 B register

  The object is a metal panel bearing sockets for 12 octal tubes (10 populated, 2 vacant) and 21 BNC connectors. A screen printed label in upper left, and on rear circuit board reads, "303 B REGISTER DIGITS 0-15 SERIAL # 8". Partially, obscured red label is "403 in out register".

  
• Whirlwind indicator panel

  Object is a rack-mount panel bearing 11 pairs of red/white indicators and 5 blank positions. Indicators are divided into groups of 2, 3, 3, and 3. Legend reads "PC INDICATOR PANEL". Paper label reading "TC4-8" partly covers engraved text, visible part reads "ECHANISMS / TORY"

  
• Mouse
• Mouse
• PS/2 Mouse
• TRS-80 Digi-Mouse
• Mouse
• Mouse

  The object is a 3-button mouse.

  
• Pro Mouse
• Mouse
• Mouse prototype
• eMate mouse

  One button mouse labled as "Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II".

  
• Mouse
• Depraz Mouse

  Object is a 3 button mouse.

  
• iMac mouse

  Printed on a label on the bottom of the mouse is "imouse, USB One Button Mouse for Mac".

  
• Mouse
• Mouse

  Sticker on botton, "The Hawley X063X Mouse Mark II". Protected by numerious U.S. and Foriegn Patents. Mouse House Berkeley CA , 94710"

  
• Mouse
• Alto mouse

  Object is a 3-button mouse with horizontal buttons.

  
• Alto mouse

  Object is a 3-button mouse with button cover missing.

  
• IMAC mouse
• The Livermore Mouse

  Object is a computer mouse built in a metal housing. The 100-inch cord ends in a round connector with 10 male pins. The note attached reads in part "11/11/97, THE LIVERMORE MOUSE. In the mid 1970s, on a visit to SRI, we discussed such devices and examined their version. On return to the Lab, we arranged to build such a device. It is easy to see that our was 'much better,' provided you had to use it to cut lumber or anchor a boat. Notwithstanding, building the LRL mouse was valuable because it alerted us to so much about human factors and their importance in design."

  
• Hewlett Packard 200C Audio Oscillator

  The HP 200C, introduced in 1940, was an evolution of the HP 200A. The 200C extended the first range down to 20 Hertz and added a fourth range to cover up to 200 kHz. The HP 200A Audio Oscillator was the first Test and Measurement instrument made by Hewlett Packard in 1939. It was manufactured in David Packard's garage in Palo Alto, CA. The product number was chosen to give the impression that Hewlett Packard was an established company with multiple products. Walt Disney bought eight HP200A units for use in the production of the movie "Fantasia". The prototype for the HP200A was built by Bill Hewlett for his Stanford University thesis project in 1938. It used a Wein bridge, resistance tuned oscillator covering from 35 Hz to 35,000 Hz in 3 ranges. Innovations in the tuned circuit included using a 3 Watt light bulb to stabilize the output.

  
• Frogger

  Game instructions

  
• Mouse

  Object is a three button mouse with two optcal sensors

  
• Mouse
• Turbo Mouse
• Mouse for Amiga

  The object is a two-button mouse.

  
• Mouse

  The object is a 3-button mouse with an attached cord with a proprietary connector.

  
• Mouse

  The object is a 3-button mouse. The finish is the SGI speckled gray color. The object has an attached 32" long cord with a 6-pin mini DIN connector.

  
• Mouse

  Object is a two-button mouse with a db-9 cable. It has an embossed XEROX label. There are three ball-bearing rollers on the bottom.

  
• Mouse

  The object is a rectangular two-button mouse with a rubber ball in the base. The "NeXT" logo is embossed on the top. Attached to the object is a 32" long cable terminating in an 8-pin male mini-DIN connector.

  
• Mindset mouse

  Dimensions are of the mouse, not including the attached cable.. Mouse has a red 1/4-inch diameter adhesive dot adhered to the end of the mouse.. Mouse has an attached black data and power cable with a DB-15-P connector.. Mouse has two 1/2-inch diameter red buttons.

  
• Regency Model TR-1 Transistor Radio (Face)

  The first transistor radio available to U. S. consumers, the Regency TR-1, hit U.S. stores in October 1954 at a price of $49.95. Developed as a joint venture between Texas Instruments, Inc. (which supplied its four germanium junction transistors) and the Regency Division of Industrial Development Engineering Associates, over 100,000 TR-1s were sold, introducing the word “transistor” into the public lexicon. Object consists of radio, original box, and a brochure detailing the Regency "Battery-Saver Kit".

  
• The Utah Teapot

  Original white porcelain teapot on which the widely distributed teapot data set is based. The teapot has frequently been used to test techniques of rendering three-dimensional objects using computer graphics. Teapots rendered as a wire frame outline- Warnock- Gouraud and Phong shaded have been published as well as many versions with simulated reflections of an environment- and shape distortions. The frequency of use of the teapot as a test object in computer graphics has given it the status of a benchmark. Data for the teapot created and input by Martin Newell- 1974- University of Utah- Salt Lake City.