Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum is a museum established in 1996, when the Boston Computer Museum sent its large mainframes and historical artifacts collection to Moffett Field for storage so that the Boston Computer Museum could concentrate more on modern computers (thus it was originally The Computer Museum History Center until 2001 http://www.computerhistory.org/about/press_relations/background/), dedicated to preserving the history of the information age and the computing revolution.

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Museum - 1996 - Mainframe - Moffett Field - 2001 - Preserving - Information age - Computing revolution

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When the Boston Computer Museum closed in 1999, its remaining historical artifacts were sent to The Computer Museum History Center at Moffett Field(http://www.mos.org/tcm/tcm.html) and the remaining computer exhibits were absorbed into the Museum of Science collection in Boston.

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Originally located at Moffett Field in an old building that was previously the Naval Base furniture store; the Museum acquired its current building at 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View, California, USA (Silicon Valley) in October 2002 and opened there to the public in June 2003.

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Furniture - Mountain View, California - USA - Silicon Valley

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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.

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Cray-1 supercomputer - 1969 - Neiman Marcus - Honeywell - Kitchen Computer - Apple I

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