Where Is Silicon Valley?

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Silicon Valley is the technology powerhouse of the world. The inventions ﬂ owing out of this once small, sleepy region—in 1940 it was the prune capital of the world—have transformed the way IBM Disk Drive, 1956 Hewlett Packard, Founded in 1939 Intel and the Microprocessor, people around the globe Seeking a faster method of pro- Started in a garage, HP is one of Intel founded in 1968 live, work, and play. cessing data than using punched the Valley’s founding companies. Local giant Intel has transformed The Computer History cards, IBM invented the world’s ﬁ st See some of HP’s early products the world with its powerful micro- Museum is located in the disk drive in its San Jose labora- and learn about “The HP Way.” processors. See how they are made heart of Silicon Valley and tories. This stack of 50 disks held REVOLUTION: MINICOMPUTERS and have enabled the incredible contains some of the hall- about 3.8 MB-or enough for one shrinking computer. mark artifacts of Silicon song today. REVOLUTION: DIGITAL LOGIC GALLERY Valley’s history. See where REVOLUTION: MEMORY & STORAGE global computer giants like HP, Intel, Apple, and Google had their humble beginnings and learn how technology has transformed the world.

SRI Shakey the Robot, 1969 Xerox Alto, 1973 Atari Pong Prototype, 1972 Shakey was the ﬁ rst robot that Hanging out on bean bag chairs, Remember Pong, the must-have could reason about its actions Xerox PARC researchers invented gift of 1975? See Atari’s original without human control. Special Alto, a groundbreaking computer Pong prototype and play a live Pong software let it create a ‘map’ that brought the computer mouse, game with a friend! of its environment, which let it the graphical user interface and REVOLUTION: GAMES move about freely, even avoiding other innovations to the world. obstacles placed in its path. REVOLUTION: INPUT & OUTPUT REVOLUTION: AI & ROBOTICS

Apple I, 1976 PalmPilot, 1996 Google Server Engine, 1999 See the Apple-1, the computer The PalmPilot got people used to One of Google’s ﬁ rst server racks, that launched Apple Computer, carrying around a small computer- made by Google engineers out of autographed by co-founder Steve like device and changed how we use commonly available PCs and net- Wozniak. computers forever. Can you imagine working equipment, helped launch REVOLUTION: PERSONAL COMPUTERS a day without your smartphone? the internet giant. REVOLUTION: MOBILE COMPUTING REVOLUTION: NETWORKING & THE WEB

To learn more visit: computerhistory.org SRI Shakey Intel HP the Robot

9 13 Software Artificial Theater Intelligence & Robotics 8 IBM RAMAC 11 Memory Disk Drive Minicomputers & 12 Storage Digital Logic 7 14 Mainframes Computer Graphics, Music & Art Xerox 15 6 Alto 5 Input & Real-Time Output Early Computer Computing Atari Pong 16 Companies Prototype 10 Computer Supercomputers Games 17 4 Apple 1 Personal Computers 18 3 Birth of the Computer Mobile Analog Palm Pilot Computing 19 Computers Networking & the Web Google 1 Server 2 Engine Calculators Punched 20 Cards What’s Babbage Next? Engine

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Orientation Theater Museum Store

Main Lobby

Cloud Reception Cafe

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PDP-1 Elevator Spacewar!

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