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Microsoft’s Memory Lane

Microsoft’s Memory Lane

For many years, Microsoft placed plaques in the sidewalk for nearly every piece of software it developed. Taken as a whole, the hundreds of markers tell the story of the company’s rise to the top of the software industry in the 1980s and 1990s. It features plaques not only for hits (MS-DOS, Windows 95) but also flops (Microsoft Bob).

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RE-PC Computer History Museum

RE-PC Computer History Museum

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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