{"id":16012,"date":"2014-04-09T21:45:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T04:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16012"},"modified":"2014-04-09T21:45:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T04:45:39","slug":"computer-history-museum-in-mountain-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/computer-history-museum-in-mountain-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer History Museum in Mountain View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/comphisy.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The largest collection in the world of antique computers and computing equipment is located in Mountain View, Calif. Home to LinkedIn, SETI-Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, \u00a0and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Campus (where 60 of the top minds in computer technology come together to create,) Mountain View is a natural for hosting this museum. \u00a0 Fascinating and full of &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that&#8221; moments, you&#8217;ll see the first modern-day computer invented by Charles Babbage&#8211;guess when? The Babbage Difference Engine was designed in 1849!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s some fun stuff in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/mountain-view-computer-history-museum.html\">Computer History Museum<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computer chips from the 1950s (1 transistor on a chip) \u00a0to today (hundreds of millions of transistors per chip)<\/li>\n<li>Calculators, Punched Card Processing, Mainframes,\u00a0\u00a0Minicomputers, Personal Computers, Gaming, AI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest collection in the world of antique computers and computing equipment is located in Mountain View, Calif. Home to LinkedIn, SETI-Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, \u00a0and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Campus (where 60 of the top minds in computer technology come together to create,) Mountain View is a natural for hosting this museum. \u00a0 Fascinating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}