Computer History Museum Gets the Attention It Deserves 53
mcpublic writes "For years the Computer History Museum has been quietly collecting and displaying the computational relics of yesteryear. Now, finally the New York Times Arts Section shines the spotlight on this most nerdy of museums. Speak Steampunk? You can find a working replica of Babbage's Difference Engine in the lobby of the museum's Mountain View, California home. Of course, the vast majority of the collection is electronic, and though 'big iron' is king, that hasn't stopped dedicated volunteers from bringing back to life pioneering 'mini' computers like the 1960 PDP-1 and the first video game software ever: Spacewar!"
Berlin's Computerspielemuseum (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/1210_Home.htm
Visited this summer. They have quite a collection of computer games.
Core Memory (Score:5, Interesting)
Meanwhile In Europe (Score:5, Interesting)
For those of us on the other side of the pond there is a reasonably good computer history museum at Bletchley Park. The computer section at the Science Museum in London is also well worth a visit providing you remember that the Pilot Ace is on the ground floor.
Ganty