American Computer Museum

American Computer Museum

The American Computer Museum is a museum of the history of computing located in Bozeman, Montana. It was founded in May 1990 by Barbara and George Keremedjiev as a non-profit organization. The museum was originally intended to have been located in Princeton, New Jersey, but the location was changed when the founders moved to Bozeman. It is likely the oldest extant museum dedicated to the history of computers in the world. "The Computer Museum" in Boston opened first, but it closed in 1999.

The museum's mission is:

"To collect, preserve, interpret, and display the artifacts and history of the information age."

Awards

The "American Computer Museum" won the Dibner Award for Excellence in Exhibits in 1994.

The "American Computer Museum" presents (in association with the Computer Science Department of Montana State University) the George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards, named for George R. Stibitz, who first used relays for computation in 1937.

  1. Arthur Burks, Chuan Chu, Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman, James Van Tassel, Maury Irvine, Eldon Hall, Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin
  2. Ed Roberts, Doug Engelbart
  3. James Harris, Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn
  4. Steve Wozniak, Tim Berners-Lee, Ray Tomlinson
  5. Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin and Stan Mazor (together)
  6. Ralph Baer, Martin Cooper, Leroy Hood, Klein Gilhousen, James Russell, Jon Titus
  9. Ross Perot, Paul Baran, John Blankenbaker
  10. Edward O. Wilson

Items in the Museum's Collection

* Antikythera mechanism (replica), earliest known geared mechanism, circa 100 B.C.
* Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator
* Model K computer (replica)
* Historical documents related to the history of computing such as original copies of Newton's The Enlightenment and Locke's Humane Understanding
* Telegraph, telephone, cash registers, and office equipment
* The IBM 1620, IBM System/360, Univac 1004, and other mainframe hardware from the 1960s and 1970s
* Analog computers
* Minicomputers
* Signed microcomputing artifacts
* Burroughs 205 (1954)
* Personal computers
* Typewriters
* Mechanical adding machines
* Slide rules
* Hand-held mechanical calculators
* IBM 409 (relay based tabulator)
* IBM 604 (vacuum tube calculator)
* IBM 1620 (early transistor machine)
* IBM System/360 mainframe
* IBM System/3 computer
* PDP-8, PDP-8/1 (desktop minicomputers)
* Altair, IMSAI, Commodore PET, SOL, Apple II, III, Lisa, Mac, KIM, SYM (microcomputers)
* Electromechanical/electronic calculators
* Friden, SCM, Monroe, Mathatron, Anita, Wang (electromechanical/electronic calculators)
* Mechanical, electrical, and electronic toys (such as Consul the Educated Monkey (1918), Pong)
* An industrial robot
* An Apollo Guidance Computer on loan from the Smithsonian
* Displays covering topics such as computer memory (ex.: Selectron Tube, core panels, delay lines, etc.), history of electronics, etc.
* A Norden bombsight

ee also

*Computer History Museum

External links

* [http://www.compustory.com/ American Computer Museum website]


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