this is a work in-progress, a list of various places to travel to
includes stuff like: computing facilities, research labs, old hangouts, cold war stuff, possibly barcades etc
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/cinderlake.html
Open Wed - Fri, 10a - 5p. Check site for details.
Admission: $17.50 adult
http://www.computerhistory.org/
Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA 94043
T: 650.810.1010
F: 650.810.1055
Formerly XEROX Palo Alto Research Center - where things like laser printers were devised
no tours given to public
333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA
Arguably the birthplace of hackerdom
MIT Campus
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
- google this -
THe famed burial ground: 32°53′11.87″N 105°57′38.69″W
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:_Game_Over
http://www.lanl.gov/museum/visit/
Bradbury Science Museum
1350 Central Avenue
Los Alamos, NM 87544
(505) 667-4444
Media: (505) 667-7000
Email: visit-bsm@lanl.gov
A plaque on a rock marks the building where Microsoft was started
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/13927
115 California Street NE
Albuquerque, NM
Just because.
Admission: $6
https://public.nrao.edu/visit/very-large-array/
The Plains of San Agustin
Old Hwy 60
Magdalena, NM 87825
34 04'43.497N, 107 37'05.819W
The F-Society arcade is real, and it's in Coney Island. Didn't see a popcorn machine but you can play skiball on the machines shown in Mr Robot. No commercialization of it yet as of summer 2016.
http://mrrobot.wikia.com/wiki/Fun_Society
1218 Bowery St
Brooklyn, NY 11224
56 NY-25A
Shoreham, NY 11786
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One of the first computers, built from 1943 - 1946, in secret at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
Parts of the ENIAC are on display in Room 100 of the Moore building.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
http://www.postnatural.org/Visit
Center for PostNatural History
4913 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
George Bush Center for Intelligence
000 Colonial Farm Rd
McLean, VA 22101
Open SUNDAYS 10a-3p. Check site for details.
http://museumofcommunications.org/contact-info-and-map/
7000 East Marginal Way
South Seattle, Washington 98108
Telephone (206) 767-3012
Mailing address: P.O. Box 81103 Seattle, WA 98108
https://www.spymuseum.org/about/
800 F St, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Every Cray supercomputer comes out of Wisconsin
https://www.cray.com/chippewa-falls-factory
Cray Inc.
1050 Lowater Rd,
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
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now many deserted structures
http://long-lines.net/places-routes/1st_transcon_mw/index.html
http://spencerjharding.com/project/the-long-lines/
Google Map of one in Kansas
source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-secrets-of-an-abandoned-tower-in-kansas/419727/
https://www.google.com/maps/dir//39.7587194,-95.7331142/@39.7587357,-95.7333381,142m/data=!3m1!1e3