Living Computer Museum

The Living Computer Museum opened October 2012 in Seattle, WA.  Unlike most museums that strive to preserve artifacts how they find them, usually broken and powered off, this museum keeps their machines alive.  They’re in working condition, complete with the strangely beautiful sounds of teletypes, Disk ][ drives, paper tape, and raised-floor cooling.  The museum …

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Magnetic Media – Do Not X-Ray | Do Not Bend

I just received the latest issue of Juiced.GS and found this stamped on the envelope. This is 2012.  Almost nobody even knows what “magnetic media” is anymore.  This stamp could be a foreboding sign: You’re walking down a dark alley.  Rats, scratching for a bite, scurry behind the overflowing dumpsters.  Somewhere in the shadows there’s a …

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