The curator talk with you..

To: friends, computers geeks, fans of old computers , technicians like me, etc

I AM curator of Computer Museum Brazil, and..

I would like to invite you to share that request,

Museu do Computador & Tecnologia (also referred to herein as "the Museum") is a nonprofit cultural association, the main goal of which is to restore, maintain and display computers and artifacts pertaining to the history and evolution of Information Technology in Brazil and the world. Founded in 1999, the Museum has been receiving a large number of equipment donations from public universities, municipal administrations, private companies, and hundreds of individuals.

The Museum has been considered, by the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute, one of the most complete collections in the world , with more than 15,000 artifacts including hardware and software items, manuals, historic documents, and related materials. It is also recognized as Latin America's only museum dedicated to the preservation, divulgation and teaching of the memory of Information Technology.

In order to further expand our collection, we kindly ask for your support by donating to the Museum the following items:

Old computers, manuals, printers, some cash donation, etc

Your donation shall integrate the permanent showcase as well as itinerant exhibits put forth by the Museum, thus contributing to the historic knowledge of the world's most revolutionary and fastest-growing technologies.

Visit our website: www.museudocomputador.com.br or my blog

Respectfully,

José Carlos Valle

President curator, Museu do Computador

São Paulo, Brazil - curador@museudocomputador.com.br - josecvalle@gmail.com

+55-11-8609-7410

God blessing you..

Computer MuseumBrazil ...Looking for a new place

The Computer Museum Brazil , looking for a new place .. where.. I do not have ideia yet. but God knows.
The Museum do not have founds to move Please. Could you help us,
Please send donation to:


Associacao Cultural dos Amigos da Informatica
Rua roma 75 - Itapecerica da serra -SP 06855-410
BRAZIL
Att: Jose Carlos Valli- phone +5511 8609-7410

Any quantity is welcome......

Thank you so much
Jose Carlos Valli - curator

Museum Brazil

Our Museum have some old computer, and we need a new space..

If you know a good space in your city, as donation. Please let me know.

I have a Museum here in my country, but, I would like to open another in US.

I am technical computer since 60's,

Send a email: josecvalle@gmail.com ou call me 55 11 5521 3655

Jose Carlos Valle

curator

take a look of my web site: www.museudocomputador.com.br

in english, is in left icone.

Thanks

COMPUTER MUSEUM BRAZIL

The Computer Museum, which re-opened on 13 April 2005, is one of the first museums of its kind in Latin America and only few museums like this one exist worldwide. It is located in a warehouse (1000m???), on 1201, Av do Rio Bonito at Interlagos, São Paulo’s southern quarter. The Museum is open from Monday to Saturday, 10:00AM-5:00 PM, to school groups and the public.

The permanent exhibition is called “The Time Tunnel” and covers the computing history in a chronological way. It is divided into four thematic galleries. The Pre-Computer age shows an Abacus: an instrument for calculations, which was developed 4,000 years ago and which was used until the 1940s.

The second gallery presents the Analogical Age, when the first computers with ferrite memories, perforated cards (?), valves (Ventile?), etc appeared. After that, in the 1970s and 80s, (the Room of the Mainframes (?), which weighed up to 10 tons, the microcomputers, the 8 inch floppy disk → of allowed for the room of the computers manufactured in Brasil. ) → kein Sinn erkennbar

The room of the Telecommunications shows some of the first teletypes before the development of the Internet and, finally, there is the age of the Microprocessores, with a display of the first personal computer (the portable ones weighing 20 pounds) and video games of the 1980s.

The Museum also organizes exhibitions in public places: in malls, SESC’s (?), for companies, in culture and leisure centers as well as for particular shows and exhibitions.

Currently it is considered by Harward – Smithsonian Institute as one of the largest and most complete collections in the world, besides being recognized as the only Latin American museum dedicated to Information Technology and Computing preservation, spearing (?) and education.
Tip of the Curator: Jose Carlos Valle

The Hard Disk That Changed the World
IBM delivered the first disk drive 50 years ago. It was about the size of two refrigerators and weighed a ton

August 7, 2006 issue - If there's a bottle of vintage champagne you've been saving, next month is the time to pop it open: it's the 50th anniversary of hard-disk storage. Don't laugh. On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM shipped the first unit of the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) and set in motion a process that would change the way we live.

The RAMAC, designed in Big Blue's San Jose, Calif., research center, is the ultimate ancestor of that 1.8-inch drive that holds 7,500 songs inside your pocket-size $299 iPod. Of course, the RAMAC would have made a lousy music player. The drive weighed a full ton, and to lease it you'd pay about $250,000 a year in today's dollars. Since it required a separate air compressor to protect the two moving "heads" that read and wrote information, it was noisy. The total amount of information stored on its 50 spinning iron-oxide-coated disks—each of them a pizza-size 24 inches—was 5 megabytes. That's not quite enough to hold two MP3 copies of Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog."
Yet those who beheld the RAMAC were astonished. "It was about the size of two large refrigerators, about as tall as a person stands, and though it used vacuum tubes, it was always running," recalls Jim Porter, who worked at Crown Zellerbach in San Francisco in the mid-'50s and would proudly take people to the basement to see what he claims was the very first unit delivered by IBM. "It really turned the tide [in the Information Age]," he says. "It was the first to offer random access, whereas before you would have to wind a tape from one end to the other to access data."
That feature, and the fact that every year scientists have managed to compress more and more information on hard drives for less and less cost, has led to a revolution just as dramatic as the one triggered by the much more celebrated microprocessor. Massive storage has allowed huge businesses to thrive. Without astronomically capacious random-access hard disks, you couldn't imagine the likes of Google, eBay or Amazon. Yet the wizards in the storage field, who constantly fight the boundaries of physics to eke out more density on increasingly tiny disks, don't get respect. "Instead of Silicon Valley, they should call it Ferrous Oxide Valley," says Mark Kryder, chief technical officer of Seagate. "It wasn't the microprocessor that enabled the personal video recorder, it was storage. It's enabling new industries."
Experts agree that the amazing gains in storage density at low cost will continue for at least the next couple of decades, allowing cheap peta-bytes (millions of gigabytes) of storage to corporations and terabytes (thousands of gigs) to the home. Meanwhile, drives with mere hundreds of gigabytes will be small enough to wear as jewelry. "You'll have with you every album and tune you've ever bought, every picture you've ever taken, every tax record," says Bill Healy, an executive at Hitachi, which acquired IBM's hard-disk business in 2003.
By Steven Levy - Newsweek

Curator: Jose Carlos Valle - Museu do Computador - Brazil
www.museudocomputador.com.br

Re-creation of the 'Colossus' mark II computer, Bletchley Park, 1997.

The control panel and pulley-wheel system of the 'Colossus' computer at Bletchley Park in Bedfordshire. Bletchley Park was the British forces' intelligence centre during World War II, and is where cryptographers deciphered top-secret military communiques between Hitler and his armed forces. The communiques were encrypted in the Lorenz code which the Germans considered unbreakable, but the codebreakers at Bletchley cracked the code with the help of Colossus.
In Collection of: Science & Society Picture Library
Tip of curator: Jose Carlos Valle

Re-creation of the 'Colossus' mark II computer, Bletchley Park, 1997.
The control panel and pulley-wheel system of the 'Colossus' computer at Bletchley Park in Bedfordshire. Bletchley Park was the British forces' intelligence centre during World War II, and is where cryptographers deciphered top-secret military communiques between Hitler and his armed forces. The communiques were encrypted in the Lorenz code which the Germans considered unbreakable, but the codebreakers at Bletchley cracked the code with the help of Colossus.
Credit:Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library
The curator tip: Jose Carlos Valle.

MINITEL 1980 ..HISTORY
The French government introduced the Minitel online services in the early 1980s. Effectively the Minitel system represents an independent French internet. Users can access up to 22,000 databases and services, for which they have to pay an access charge. To promote the service, France Telecom gave away millions of the terminals for free, and today they can be found in over 6 million homes and many government agencies. The existence of Minitel meant that the French were slow to embrace the World Wide Web, but today many of the services previously only accessible via Minitel can now be found on the internet. The terminal features a keyboard which can be folded away to cover the screen when not in use, as seen here. Made by Alcatel Business Systems.
Credit:Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library
TIP BY CURATOR: JOSE CARLOS VALLE -CURATOR