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Today's field trip to the Computer History Museum? I was fearing something lame and Dilbert-esque like a team-building ropes course exercise. Then when the buses pulled up front of the Mountain View country club, I thought maybe we were all going to play golf. But no, after the very nice lunch we had there, it turned out we were going to the museum, which is a place I've always meant to check out.

Simply put, the museum blew me away. Really surprised at how cool and engrossing it was. Partly because I had more of a personal connection with what I was seeing, since a lot of what I was seeing I or my family worked with or owned.

I particularly liked seeing the original 128k Macintosh, which made me intensely nostalgic. I used an original Mac from 1984 to 1993, almost ten years, and I still miss it's all-in-one simplicity and the way 12-point New York font looked when printed with an ImageWriter.

Another thing I loved were all the old 60s and 70s mainframe computers, which reminded me a Sean Connnery James Bond movie, as well as my own childhood, when my mom used to take me to the Harvard Computing Center and I would wander around, hunting for interestingly colored punch cards while she did whatever it was she did (program in Fortran I now know.)

Awesome idea for an offsitte. Much thanks to Mena for organizing it.