Saturday, October 18, 2014

Punch Card Night at the Computer History Museum

I love the computer history museum in Mountain View. If you get a chance to go there, do it. There is so much to see and it is really super interesting.

On Wednesday they had a Punch Card night. It was ridiculously fun. Photo time!!!!!


Punching in my name

Look Ma! I'm punching cards!! 

Our punch cards 

A print out in the punch card room 

Sweet old men were running the demo


Flashy lights

Where the cards come flashing in to be processed

The IBM 1401 printed us each these cool banners. And yes, 
sometimes the machine reads the card wrong. On the plus side,
I have a really cool new name: AVA ST 16H5!

Inside the museum 

Lidar mapping 

Why yes, we did spend a lot of time trying to locate a TARDIS on Google Earth.
Left to Right: Ezekiel, Eric, John, Linds, and my HB buddy Amy!

We left it there in the hopes of confusing the next person.