Historic telegraph components in Berlin’s Museum of Technology – this might be a repair kit!

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Google Glass is only about six years old, but is already in Berlin’s Museum of Technology. Its data display was revolutionary, but it got a bad name due to its integrated camera and public opinion quickly turned against the gadget – it never was sold on the open market.

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The famous Cray-2 supercomputer built in 1985 in Berlin’s Museum of Technology – back then at 1.9 GigaFlops it was the fastest computer in the world, but nowadays supercomputer performance is measured in TeraFlops!

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There’s a whole weather satellite in Berlin’s Museum of Technology!

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An old-fashioned library card index in Berlin’s Museum of Technology.

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A Lexicon in Berlin’s Museum of Technology – the exact one that was on my Grandfather’s bookshelves in my childhood, so I had to take a photo of it!

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Early computer equipment from IBM in Berlin’s Museum of Technology – I’m not sure exactly what this was, but it seems to be a part of a larger computer from the 1950s or 1960s.

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Early data storage in Berlin’s Museum of Technology.

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Four kinds of optical data storage in Berlin’s Museum of Technology: a Laserdisc, amusingly of the German release of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, a CD with the Microsoft Encarta 2002, a blank rewritable DVD+RW and a MiniDisc.

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A Kodak Recordak microfilm reader in Berlin’s Museum of Technology – back in the late 1990s I encountered those in an University Library!

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