Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) -- December 2016

While we were in the area for business, part of the plan was to stop here.  An appropriate amount of time was worked into our schedule to take the time to go through this.  We arrived about the time when it would open for the day, and we able to enjoy it without mobs of people around.  From the "old style" computer (when they took up entire rooms) to the latest innovations, this was very thorough.

I took a number of pictures of things which I found interesting.  These included to changing of the storage capacity, as disks got smaller and smaller (and the Zip Disks which I used a lot of).  I remember playing with the "Big Trak" that a neighbor had, and using the old TRS-80 computers in high school.  I had to get a shot of the Odyssey console (with the background film held to the television screen by static), as it was the *only* console system I ever owned.  The Quiz Whiz was something I had fond memories of, as Dean and I played that a lot.

Of course I'm going to like all the Apple-related stuff, as I used the Classic Mac in college, and my first computer was the LC II.  I almost had the early versions of the notebook and Duo Dock, but I lost the lottery on those.  I loved the Pets.com guy, because I fondly remembered those commercials (and can Chewy adopt him as a "retro-mascot"?)

Fremont Central Park (Fremont, CA) -- December 2016

During our business trip to California, we took a short break to see some nice ducks at a pond in the central part of Fremont.  Really, there was nothing else worth seeing in the city.