I have a vague memory of visiting the Computer Museum when it was still at DEC, in the Marlboro building (MRO-n). About the only item I recall is a Goodyear STARAN computer (or piece of one). I found it rather surprising to have see a computer made by a tire company. I learned years later that the STARAN is a very unusual architecture, sometimes called a one-bit machine. More precisely, I think it's a derivative of William Shooman's "Orthogonal Computer" vector computer architecture, which was for a while sold by Sanders Associates where he worked.
paul > On May 23, 2024, at 5:00 PM, Kevin Anderson via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I had the good fortune of visiting The Computer Museum in Boston in the > summer of 1984. Reading the museum's Wikipedia article, it appears I was > there while they were still freshly setting up their Museum Wharf location, > yet hadn't officially opened yet. Unfortunately I only had an hour (or > little more) to visit before I had to return to where my wife was at a > different location (which I vaguely recall was at an aquarium somewhere > nearby?). The clerk at the front entrance was really surprised that I was > leaving so soon...which in hindsight I wish now had not been so short. > > Kevin Anderson > Dubuque, Iowa