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  • Vintage Pong computer game set up
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  • Vintage yellow game controller from Apple
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    Arnold Nordsieck and Richard Norberg created this Differential Analyzer in 1956 to solve equations in physics.
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    The Nordsieck/Norberg Differential Analyzer featured multiple computation units allowing for addition, integration and multiplication mounted on a rolling table. Electrical signals connected the units via servos.
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  • Closeup frontal view of Spaceball controller
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  • White wooden model of PalmPilot
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  • Detailed view of census machines showing dials and clocks
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    Herman Hollerith developed this 1890 tabulation machine for the Census Bureau. Holes punched in a card represented census results, with the card placed in a press that counted the holes. In 1911, Hollerith sold his patents for the machine to the Computing, Tabulating, and Recording Company, which eventually became IBM.
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