The Birds and Nerds Tour by Larry Jett
This was a joint tour with our club and the CHVA, Contemporary Historical Vehicle Association. We took a tour of the Computer History Museum at Moffatt Field by way of the Dumbarton Bridge/Wetlands Highway. From the town of Newark to Mt. view, stopping at the fishing pier on the old Bridge highway last used in 1982 to connect Fremont to Menlo Park, California.
Larry greets everyone and hands out maps and written directions for navigators. Round-up at the Jett Ranch.
A beautiful day for a tour.
Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, the first urban National Wildlife Refuge established in the U.S. About 18 cars of all types made the trip.
The old bridge is now a fishing pier, complete with windbreaks and beautiful views of the bay. The upper road is the newer Dumbarton bridge.
An easy drive to the Museum at Mt. View
Tomy, an early robot
The ENIAC needed a massive amount of tubes to work.
Early transistors
Silicon wafer evolution
This one had to be cooled by Freon to work.
First Macintosh prototype
The huge Johnniac computer, found at the dumps and rescued.
This cardpunch reader was used for the first U.S. census.
Another rescued computer in the story...
notice the extra ventilation on the upper left. Perhaps it acted up one to many times!