A Trip Down Computer Memory Lane 118
News.com has an interesting stroll down memory lane with a look at the "DigiBarn", a collection of technology from early mechanical calculators to modern web appliances. NASA contractor Bruce Damer and partner Alan Lundell run this "museum in transition" from a 19th-century farmhouse deep in the Santa Cruz mountains. In addition to notable success milestones, the company also includes some of the industry failures, like an Apple III Damer acquired from Apple's legal department.
Re:Accuracy (Score:1, Insightful)
They should include that famous Bill Gates quote in the article.
Re:Why no link to the actual museum? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Accuracy (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Cassette tape? Where are the MP3s??? (Score:4, Insightful)
A few emulators can read from WAV files of the tapes. MP3 should be okay bandwidth-wise, but the psycho-acoustic model throws away information humans can't hear, and I don't know if that is a problem for some data encodings. The WAV-reading only exists to load files from old tapes, it's not a sensible long-term storage mechanism.