People become attached to their old computers-some people more than others. Michael Williams is very attached to his. A long-time collector and one of the most prominent computer historians, he has just been recruited to turn a motley collection of obsolete machines-currently sitting in a warehouse at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley-into a world-class museum. With gems such as the 1965 Honeywell kitchen computer, which required a two-week course to learn how to use, and the Cray 2, which used artificial blood plasma as coolant, how could he fail? Catherine Zandonella meets him among his hulking mainframes…
For the love of machines
9 February 2002
