Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum is an institution dedicated to preserving artifacts and information related to computer development.

A Brief History Of The Museum:

In the late 1960s, Gordon and Gwen Bell placed a compilation of their computing devices and displayed it in the lobby of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Boston. Bell's collection was first released in 1984 as Computer Museum (TCM). This collection has been transferred and nominated over many years. The official name became the Computer History Museum (CHM) in 2000, and in 2003 its collection was opened to the public in its current location, Mountain View, California.

Physical performance includes:

• Cray-1, Cray-2 and Cray-3 Super Computers.
• The construction of the inter-engine of Charles Babbage, which he designed in the 1820s
• A reconstruction of the DEC's historic PDP-1 minicomputer (see PDP-11).
• An Apple I
• Nieman Marcus Kitchen Computer from the 1970s

Of the many exhibitions available on the museum's website:

• Silicon Engines: A Timeline of Semiconductors in Computing History
• History of computer timeline: Important milestones 1939-1994.
• The Babbage Engine: The Story of First Computer Pioneer
• Internet history: Major milestones: 1962-1992.
• This day in history: what happened in computer history to any date

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