The Computer History Museum has created a YouTube videeo channel. It’s really good. (Hat tip to Slashdot.)
In 2002, I went on a tour of the archives with John Toole as part of my long stay holiday in San Francisco. This was when the museum was still in a warehouse. It was the most nostalgic afternoon for me – it was like walking through my own life. All the computers I had ever used or played with were there on a shelf.
I completely support their work and encourage you to visit the museum, watch the videos and give them lots of money.
It would be cool if they added the video of the discussion panel with Nolan Bushnell and Steve Russell. Perhaps it will be added in future. You can read my little history of computer games on my personal site.
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We had a similar exhibit here in Albuquerque (where the PC and Microsoft were actually born, believe or not.) My favorite was the HUGE disk big enough for a coffee table…that held like 5 MB.
As much as I grip about technology – it’s a wondrous thing. I can remember using fax machines where you had to insert the phone and then connect paper to the drum (of course if you were really savvy, you taped sheets of paper together, so you wouldn’t have to keep inserting new ones.) (Yes, Virginia, I rode to shool on a dinosaur.)