Destroyed harddrives donated by a Google Datacenter in Berlin’s Museum of Technology.

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It’s the data kraken on top of the bookcases in Berlin’s Museum of Technology!

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There is a cephalopod on top of those bookcases in Berlin’s Museum of Technology.

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A classic Adler typewriter probably from the 1940s in Berlin’s Museum of Technology.

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Back to analogue information in Berlin’s Museum of Technology – a wall of books (which I also have at home, so it’s not really special to me!).

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This computer in Berlin’s Museum of Technology seems to be the original IBM-PC released in 1981. It appears to have two disk drives and no harddrive yet, so it is probably one of the very early models with 64kb RAM (much later upgraded to ten times that amount) and a 4.77 MHz Intel 8080 CPU. If you look closely on this photo, you can see that the screen is switched off, but has characters still burned in!

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This strange machine, a Tektronics 4006-1 in Berlin’s Museum of Technology looks like a computer, but is only a “dumb” terminal from the 1970s that displays the data of a computer like a PDP hooked up to it with a RS-232 serial connection. The interesting feature was that it could not only display text, but also simple vector graphics too!

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This Osborne-1 from 1981 in Berlin’s Museum of Technology was one of the first portable personal computers, a Z80 machine with 64kb RAM running CP/M 2.2 on two 5.25″ floppy drives. The screen was only 5 inches big and was able to display 52×24 characters. Osborne went bankrupt in 1983, mainly because competitor Kaypro had better ‘luggables’ to offer, but those are sadly not in the museum to see. Our family still owns a fully working Kaypro 2x though!

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An early 3Com Palm Pilot from 1997 – I still used a similar model in the early 2000s and had exactly the same portable keyboard!

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Early mobile computing in the form of PDAs in Berlin’s Museum of Technology, which have nowadays morphed into smartphones.

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