Gordon Bell - Tour of the Computer History Museum, Part I
- Posted: Oct 03, 2005 at 8:23 PM
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Gordon Bell. The name is legendary among geeks. Just read
his Wikipedia page to see his accomplishments.
About 30 years ago he started collecting computers while working at DEC. That little hobby turned into a sizeable Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. We were honored to be able to get a tour from Gordon and John Toole, the executive director and CEO.
Also in the video are Dave Winer, founder of UserLand Software, my son Patrick, and Dan'l Lewin, co-founder of NeXT Computer. Dan'l and Gordon now work at Microsoft.
Dan'l was on the original Macintosh team and tells us some stories about the early days.
Making an appearance was the Google Code Jam participants who were getting a tour of the museum at the same time we were walking around. You also get to meet Jesse, Dan'l son, who works at an Apple store in Palo Alto.
File size is 191 MB.
Part II will be up tomorrow.
About 30 years ago he started collecting computers while working at DEC. That little hobby turned into a sizeable Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. We were honored to be able to get a tour from Gordon and John Toole, the executive director and CEO.
Also in the video are Dave Winer, founder of UserLand Software, my son Patrick, and Dan'l Lewin, co-founder of NeXT Computer. Dan'l and Gordon now work at Microsoft.
Dan'l was on the original Macintosh team and tells us some stories about the early days.
Making an appearance was the Google Code Jam participants who were getting a tour of the museum at the same time we were walking around. You also get to meet Jesse, Dan'l son, who works at an Apple store in Palo Alto.
File size is 191 MB.
Part II will be up tomorrow.
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Thanks Ajay for arranging the tour. That really was a once-in-a-lifetime tour and interview. Gordon Bell just rocks. Tomorrow you get to hear about his DEC days.
And, I'll get the video of your car up soon.
Anyway, it's a bit late to ask now you've already filmed it, but does Gordon know about or was involved with SAIL - the Stanford AI Lab computer? I've read quite a bit about it online and it has to be one of the most interesting computer installtions around having started off as a PDP (7 I think) prototype that was then expanded and customised over and over by the people at Stanford. It had many firsts including Spacewars and terminals where you could move from one to another and get all your work back up exactly as you left it.
I can't wait to see part II
Awesome video Scoble - I'd say this one is my favorite, but I have so many favorites
\\uslacker
Thanks Again
I'd say - bring on the extreme videos. Next one...swinging from the MS Campus roof from a rope.
j/k
Apparently, Sun and Google showed up at the Computer History Museum to tout their latest idea for a Web version of Office (see further this link). Apparently, this would be taking on MS on their own turf (the Office suite) . Anyway, I wonder if this video will include any of that (inadvertently).
Anyways, nice video! Looking forward to Part II! I think I may swing by the museum if I ever head out to the west coast someday.
Yeah, I noticed after watching the webcast. Besides that, it seemed to be a very uneasy relationship between Google's Eric Schmidt (former Sun employee) and Sun CEO. The CEO of Sun totally dissed Google as well, saying that in 5-10 years, Sun will be forming partnerships with another company better than Google. It's worth the watch...move to the last minute of the video here
-Jerry
BTW, I've recently started to appreciate the screencasts (under Media in the menu). It all helps me to keep up to date with the great stuff Microsoft is doing.
word up Ajay
BTW we should rename you to "Robert the Game pirate"
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