Visit The Computer History Museum
Mountain View, California
"Silicon Valley"

Section eighteen is Mobile Computing.  Networks and the Web is in section nineteen.  The last section, twenty is called "What Next?" 

Adjacent to museum is Google.

It will take a lot longer to walk around Google than the museum.  It takes some time just to drive around the place.

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Personal Note:  Not that I am a museum expert, but I do tour a lot of museums and also give
museum tours from time to time as well own a small museum that I put together from day one.
That said,  whenever I tour a museum I like to take note of some details that I consider
important to any museum or tour, guided or not guided to help me maintain and give tours.
There are four areas I consider important in the order of importance.  First on my list is
content, then continuity.  Next in importance is the museum layout.  Last is completeness.
The Computer Historical Museum in my opinion passed with flying colors in all areas
except layout. The day I toured the museum it was not crowded and yet  it took me way
 to long to see everything and almost missed half the exhibits.  On a busy day it could
have been worse.  Boxed in areas with small items in cases with detailed descriptions
only compounds the problem adding to poor traffic flow and visibility.  Trying to stay
focused on content I lost my bearings within the maze layout.   The orientation video
in the beginning could have covered an overview of the museum layout and brief
 summery of galleries that would have worked better for me than a inside-folded brochure
map given at the time I purchased my ticket, or posting maps throughout the museum
and putting arrows on the floor where everyone walks and all eyes are looking up
at the displays.   For a million and more dollar museum, I still give it an A+ grade.
To someone like me, the long trip and time and cost involved just to get here,
missing something, or having to tour the museum several times is not a
pleasant option.   Thankfully I attended on a very slow day.

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