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"Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers" - Phoenix New Times

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 10:02 PM PDT

Venue

Phoenix Airport Museum, Terminal 4

3400 Sky Harbor Blvd.

Phoenix, AZ

602-273-2105

http://phoenix.gov/skyharborairport/community/art-museum.html

Date/Time:Daily from Mon., July 6 until Sun., October 25

Price: free

Memory Loss

Photographer immortalizes old clunkers like the ENIAC and Cray-1

By Steve Jansen

If you're reading this from your personal computer, consider yourself pretty damned lucky to have easy access to such badass technology. Once upon a time, the only computers in existence were machines like the World War II-era ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) and the Cray-1 supercomputer that weren't exactly available for purchase at the neighborhood Best Buy.

Now that these endearing beasts have faded into a bygone era, we should give it up to these awesome advances in machinery. Do so by checking out the "Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers" exhibit of photographs by Mark Richard, a 14-time champeen of San Francisco's Communication Arts Photography competition who also published a book by the same name.
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