{"id":2497,"date":"2014-05-19T13:41:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2016-01-21T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T12:06:56","slug":"californian-computer-museum-nerds-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/californian-computer-museum-nerds-paradise","title":{"rendered":"Californian Computer Museum is a Nerd&#8217;s Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2498\" alt=\"digibarn-computer-museum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/digibarn-computer-museum.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/digibarn-computer-museum.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/digibarn-computer-museum-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did you know there is a museum of obsolete technology in California which serves as a geek\u2019s paradise? The DigiBarn Computer Museum is said to move some of its nerdy visitors to tears as they remember their old inventions with fondness and enjoy a bout of nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is housed in an old redwood barn, part of a 19<sup>th<\/sup> century farmstead deep in the Santa Cruz mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The museum was the brainchild of Dr Bruce Damer, who is keen to collect personal stories and track technological evolution through the large collection of vintage computers.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b>When we get visitors who burst into tears upon seeing certain systems which may have defined their lives and careers, our cameras roll to capture the inevitable stories,\u201d said Dr Damer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe interconnected redwood rooms of the museum constitute a kind of \u2018memory palace\u2019 for the nerd-inclined and help us piece together the amazing story of the invention of personal computing and Cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my fantasy to one day receive a grant or philanthropic support and really have the resources to fully document the people involved and their inventions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The museum is guarded by a family of pigs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digibarn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DigiBarn Commputer Museum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know there is a museum of obsolete technology in California which serves as a geek\u2019s paradise? 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