Computer History Museum - Definition and Overview

The Computer History Museum is a museum established in 1996 (originally as The Computer Museum History Center until 2001) dedicated to preserving the history of the information age and the computing revolution, located in Mountain View, California, USA (Silicon Valley).

It currently is home to the largest collection of computing artifacts in the world. Including many rare or one-of-a-kind objects such as a Cray-1 supercomputer, the 1969 Neiman Marcus (Honeywell) Kitchen Computer, and an Apple I, their collection is comprised of over 4,000 artifacts, 10,000 images, and 4,000 linear feet of catalogued documentation.

See also

• DigiBarn Computer Museum

External links

• Computer History Museum homepage (http://www.computerhistory.org/)
• WAVE report on the Computer History Museum (http://www.wave-report.com/photopages/comp-history/), with many photos of high interest artifacts