Mind Machine Museum

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Calculators, computers, and video games are all high-tech tools of the mind. Teachers may find there students fascinated by early examples and willing to engage in high-tech archaeological "digs" in their local community. These artifacts, combined with their disks and cartridges, may be disassembled and analyzed, restored and displayed or operated as functioning units--an archaeological, technology challenge that gives students a historical perspective about the computer revolution, both its software and hardware.
Traditional antiques are at least 100 years old, but given the rapid, unprecedented changes in microcomputers, game machines, and calculators, any such product that is 10 or more years old might be considered antique. The original control console for the first supercomputer, the CDC 6600....Was 1964 by the manufacturer: Control Data Corporation....its serial number was: 0002 designed by: Seymour Cray costing $6 million. Ever since then computers have been able to be accessed by any class. They are in pretty much in home. They range from $500 to almost $3000. With the new advancement in technology by 2010 there should be a computer in every house in America at a cheaper cost. Without computers now of days a person is nothing. Computers is basically a way of survival in this time of era....