The Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

A Cray 2 supercomputer at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

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, California so that the Boston location could concentrate on computing-related exhibits for children. Thus, it was originally the West Coast division of The Computer Museum, named The Computer Museum History Center[1] until it shortened its name in 2001, dedicated to preserving and presenting the stories and artifacts of the information age, and exploring the computing revolution and its impact on our lives. Image File history File links Computer_history_museum. ... Image File history File links Computer_history_museum. ... Download high resolution version (1152x868, 147 KB)The Cray-2 supercomputer. ... Download high resolution version (1152x868, 147 KB)The Cray-2 supercomputer. ... The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as big iron) are large and expensive computers used mainly by government institutions and large companies for legacy applications, typically bulk data processing (such as censuses, industry/consumer statistics, ERP, and bank transaction processing). ... Moffett Federal Airfield (IATA: NUQ, ICAO: KNUQ), also known as Moffett Field, is a private airport located 3 miles (5 km) north of Mountain View, in Santa Clara County, California, USA. The airport is near the south end of San Francisco Bay, north of San Jose. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Preservation is a broad term, applying in several areas where items are preserved or conserved in some manner. ... Information Age is a name given to a period after the industrial age and before the Knowledge Economy. ...

When the Boston Computer Museum closed in 1999, its remaining historical artifacts were sent to The Computer Museum History Center at Moffett Field [2] and the remaining computer exhibits were absorbed into the Museum of Science collection in Boston. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Outside the Museum of Science, August 2005 The Museum of Science is a Boston landmark, located in Science Park, a plot of land spanning the Charles River. ...

Originally located at Moffett Field in an old building that was previously the Naval Base furniture store, the museum acquired its current building (previously occupied by Silicon Graphics), at 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View, California, USA (Silicon Valley) in October 2002. It opened there to the public in June 2003. A Shaker rocker, or rocking chair. ... Silicon Graphics, Inc. ... Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. ...

The museum currently has three unique exhibits highlighting important milestones from the history of computing, the history of computer chess, and inventions from Silicon Valley companies and people. The museum's signature Timeline of Computing History, covering computing history from Sumerian clay tablets to the iPod, will open in 2009. Tour hours are currently (2006) offered four afternoons per week on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is free.

The Computer History Museum is home to the largest and most significant collection of computing artifacts in the world. This includes many rare or one-of-a-kind objects such as a Cray-1 supercomputer, the 1969 Neiman Marcus (Honeywell) Kitchen Computer, Hewitt Crane's all-magnetic computer, an Apple I, and an example of the first generation of Google's racks of custom-designed web servers^[1]. The collection comprises nearly 50,000 objects, photographs and films, as well as 4,000 linear feet of catalogued documentation and several hundred gigabytes of software. CRAY-1 at the EPFL in Switzerland. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Categories: Stub | Retail companies of the United States ... Honeywell (NYSE: HON) is a major American multinational corporation that produces electronic control systems and automation equipment. ... An ad for the Kitchen Computer. ... Hewitt D. Crane is an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), magnetic digital logic, neuristor logic, the development of an eye-movement tracking device, and a pen-input device for computers. ... The Apple I was an early personal computer, and the first to combine a keyboard with a microprocessor and a connection to a monitor. ... Googles main pages unusually spartan design, uncluttered appearance and quick loading time have contributed greatly to the sites mass appeal. ... Wikimedia servers architecture The term Web server can mean one of two things: A computer that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are Web pages such as HTML documents and...

References

1. ^ How Google Works, David F. Carr - Baseline Magazine July 6th 2006

External links

• Computer History Museum website.
• WAVE report on the Computer History Museum, with many photographs of interesting artifacts.