This place is amazing, not just for the impressive array of early telephone and communications systems assembled here, but for the fact that a lot of it actually works. The volunteer staff at the Museum of Communications, formerly the Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum, leads tours of the facility and can also be seen restoring and maintaining the equipment.
It’s not exactly the Smithsonian in scale, but the customer service center at the Japanese video-game giant’s North American headquarters features a small museum of classic Nintendo consoles, games and memorabilia.
This recently revamped and relocated facility showcases Microsoft products, past and present, and offers a chance to play Xbox 360 games on a giant screen. Across the hall is the company store, also recently relocated, where the public can buy merchandise but not software or hardware, which are sold at an employee discount.
It may not look like much nowadays, but this device was a breakthrough in telecommunications in its day. The wireless telephone, on display at Seattle’s Museum Of History & Industry, was produced by inventor William Dubilier in 1910. It’s a follow-up to a similar device shown by Dubilier at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909.
If there was ever any doubt that Paul Allen is a bona fide geek, this place removes all of it. The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, an expansion of the Microsoft co-founder’s undulating Experience Music Project, is an homage to science fiction TV shows and movies. Its current collection has plenty of must-sees ... - Read full post
This 80-foot, domed theater inside the Pacific Science Center was built and designed by architect Buckminster Fuller as part of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. Today it performs laser shows set to famous albums, including Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” every Friday and Saturday at midnight.
A comprehensive history of the personal computer, in the back of a used computer store. Featuring real models of many of the machines that fueled the PC revolution, as wide-ranging as the DEC Rainbow 100 and the Apple Lisa.
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