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Tour ends here
After the Babbage engine demo, we decided our trip was complete. we saw a brief history or computers...
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Goodbye! we miss you already!
I never would have thought I would have had so much fun vising the Computer history museum. I almost...
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Where do we go????
"Is this thing right side up?" "Thats what she said" "Shut up Jose"
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Crazy polynomial machine
AKA the Babbage Difference Engine (of intense adding and subtracting.) After our chess break, we...
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Arrival (not pictured girlfriend)
So we arrived at the CHM with few seconds to spare before the tour but we thought we would flash this photo first....
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Chess break!
after the tour we found chess boards and admired them. they were part of an exhibit on...
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This looks awfully familiar
My dad had one of these when I was little. But thats not why it looks familiar, lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Swan_co mputer this is why it looks familiar
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Setting up the engine
These guys were really cool. They set up the engine and gave it a lengthy backstory. They told us...
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The Babbage engine
it weighs 5 tons and has 8000 parts. the only reason it was there was because the guy who bought it...
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Aww
the day we went to visit the museum happened to be two months from the day that my girlfriend and I...
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Good luck reading all that
it took me reading this and listening to a volunteer explain for 30 minutes for me to...
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We didnt know where to start...
CHM trip
