What is the most popular attraction?
A really popular one is this thing called the Kitchen Computer, which is actually a machine by Honeywell, but one that was marketed by Neiman Marcus on the cover of their 1969 Christmas catalogue. It cost $10,000 and was a woman in a long, flowing apron, and she’s sort of seductively leaning against this computer, using it to store her recipes, which is really funny because it had no interface device so she would have had to basically been a computer scientist to use it. We also have a super computer, which is very interesting. It’s round and has a bench around it so you can sit on it. We have one in our study collection and one in our lobby. The one in the lobby was $10 million when it came out in 1970. It was called the world’s most expensive love seat. Computers are advancing at a very fast pace. What makes it into the museum and what doesn’t? Are there any criteria for donations? Yeah, there are. The first is anything by inventors—so if it was Steve Wozniak’s baby shoes (that’s sor
