One of the neat things about our corporate headquarters' is its location in the San Francisco Bay area. We have two great baseball teams, two great football teams, arena football, soccer, hockey, and basketball plus many museums to visit once you've had your fill of professional sports.

The Computer History Museum is located in the south bay just off Highway 101 at 1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard. It is the world's largest and most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. It allows you to discover how computing became the amplifier for our minds and changed the way we work, live and play. The exhibit portion of the Museum spans history from pre-computing to supercomputing, and reflects the development in technology from gears to vacuum tubes to exotic semiconductors. It features more than 600 artifacts including the Honeywell "Kitchen Computer", the Cray 1, the Johnniac and an Eniac rack.

We were called in to help address the acoustical and audio system problems in the newly renovated auditorium. The first task was to control the excessive reverberation and rear wall echo. Placing acoustical treatments on the exposed metal ceiling and adding acoustical and black out drapes on the rear wall achieved this. The next step was to rearrange the signal flow through the existing equipment as a temporary patch, while the system is upgraded.

The museum is open Wednesday & Friday for docent led tours at 1 PM and 2:30 PM; Saturday for self-guided tours from 11 AM till 5 PM with docent led tours at 11:30 AM, 1 PM and 2:30 PM. There is no charge for the tours but donations are welcome and membership is encouraged. Tours last approximately one hour.

More information can be found at
http://www.computerhistory.org.