[HH] Arduino board programmed with an audio file

[Jerry Feldman]

The old Boston Computer Museum was at the waterfront in the same
building as The Children's Museum. It has since closed down. The curator
was Gwen Bell, Gordon Bell's wife. AFAIK, they moved everything to San
Francisco.

On 01/05/2012 03:34 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
> That is the one.  It was down by where the USS Constitution was docked
> years ago if I remember right.
>
> I think the Altair was named that because that is where the Star Trek
> TV series was going the night
> Ed Roberts and a friend were discussing it at Ed's kitchen table.  His
> daughter brought that forward
> as a suggestion during a commercial :)
>
>> <> ... Jack
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi at acm.org> wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
>>
>> [Altair]
>>> I had it until I got rid of it after getting married several years
>>> later and wife got me to 'dump my junk I don't use'.  Still wish I had
>>> it.  I did notice the one in the Computer Museum in Boston has a
>>> higher serial number than mine did.
>> Nice. I think these were shipped west tho... the Computer Museum collection from Digital was shipped to the Silicon valley museum a few years back.  Or do we have a new computer museum in town, and I am sadly unaware?
>>
>> Funny how today 'Altair' is most likely to refer to a character in a videogame... :) Hadn't noticed the overlap until now.
>


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