We went to Durgan Park again this trip. We had a very polite waitress, great service, and the clam chowder was delicious and authentic. My great- grandfather probably did eat at Durgan Park; he grew up in Carlisle, Mass.
A Macintosh on the fifth floor will translate English phonetics to Egyptian hieroglyphics. Here are cartouches of Thomas' and Lucy's names. There was no 'L', so we substituted 'R' much as we do for Japanese.
When Dick was in the Computer Museum Store, he couldn't resist this core plane. On his first job in computers, he programmed a PDP8 with 4K words of core - 12 planes like the one here. It cost $1 per word. The memory on the machine used to write this page cost 1/20,000 as much per bit and the machine has 2,700 times more memory.
Sadly, the Computer Museum closed its doors in 1999. Read about how many of its resources and exhibits are being maintained and expanded.