Museum of the history of the computer

The Musée of the history of the computer ( Computer History Museum ) is a founded Musée in 1996, when the Boston Computer Museum moved its collection of host computers and historical articles with Moffett Field, in California, preferring to concentrate on exposures on the Informatique dedicated to the children. In the beginning the division of the west coast of the Museum of the computer, baptized The Computer Museum History Center , then re-elected in 2001 The Computer History Museum , the exposure explores the data-processing revolution and its impact on the daily life.

When the museum of Boston closes in 1999, the remainder of its historical collections are sent to the Computer Museum History Center in Moffett Field, and the remainder of its exposures on data processing are absorbed by the Musée of Science of Boston.

The museum, initially located at Moffett Field in an old building which was in the beginning the store of pieces of furniture of the naval Base, acquires its current building (occupied before by Silicon Graphics) in October 2002, in 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View. It opens in June 2003.

The museum presents three exposures at present proposing the important dates of the Histoire of data processing, the history of the failures and the computer, and the inventions of companies and personalities of Silicon Valley. The museum must open in 2009 an exposure entitled “ Chronology of the history of the informatique ” ( Timeline off Computing History ), covering the history since the shelves of Clay Sumérien born until the IPod. Guided visits, carried out by volunteers of which much is veterans of the field of data processing, are organized four afternoons per week. The entry is free.

The institution lodges the most important collection of data-processing objects of the world. It includes many rare parts, like a Superordinateur CRAY-1, a machine Enigma, the computer-kitchen Neiman Marcus manufactured by Honeywell in 1969, an entirely magnetic computer of Hewitt Crane, a Apple I and an example of the first generation of rack of waiters builds to measure by Google.

The museum, financed mainly by the sponsorship and the gifts of companies and personalities of Silicon Valley, also accommodates conferences on the topic of state-of-the-art technologies.

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