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    Which Way, L.A.?

    2,000 Years of Personal Computing at the Computer History Museum

    Computers are only about 50 years old, but that's old enough to give them a museum — where else but in Silicon Valley. Actually, the effort began 30 years ago on the other high-tech corridor, Route 128 around Boston, Massachusetts. But the permanent opening of the Computer History Museum was last Thursday in Mountain View, north of San Jose.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Computers are only about 50 years old, but that's old enough to give them a museum — where else but in Silicon Valley. Actually, the effort began 30 years ago on the other high-tech corridor, Route 128 around Boston, Massachusetts. But the permanent opening of the Computer History Museum was last Thursday in Mountain View, north of San Jose. Scott Ard is editor-in-chief of the technology website CNET.

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    Tolerance and the Politics of Latino Assimilation
    1. 0:00On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Ethnic Studies in Arizona
    2. 19:182,000 Years of Personal Computing at the Computer History MuseumYou’re reading this
    3. 25:49The US and China: Face to Face at the White House
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