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(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, www.computerhistory.org) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes more than 4,000 hardware components and 10,000 images made up of films, videos and historical photos. Originally part of the Boston-based Computer Museum, the spin-off History Museum established itself in Silicon Valley in 1996. With plans for several phases of development, the museum is dedicated to computing history and its social impact. One of its most popular exhibits is "Visible Storage," where rare objects such as the Cray-1 supercomputer, the Apple I and the 1969 Honeywell "Kitchen Computer" are displayed. In 2005, a new exhibit opened featuring the history of computer chess and the five decades it took to build the machines that could challenge the worthiest of human players.

Capturing Tech History for the Ages
The original Computer Museum was founded in Marlboro, Massachusetts in 1979. Funded by several computer companies and private individuals, it offered the history of the industry as well as hands-on exhibits for kids and adults. You could literally walk through the world's largest computer. Its displays are now located in Boston's Museum of Science.

Some Keyboard!

A boy has fun on the giant keyboard in the Boston Museum's Walk-Through Computer that opened in 1995. (Image by FAYFOTO/John Rich; courtesy of The Computer History Museum.)

The Largest Display Adapter in the World

Visitors explore the ceiling-high graphics card in the Boston Museum. (Image by FAYFOTO/Keith Quenzel; courtesy of The Computer History Museum.)

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The messages were transmitted from a computer museum near Hamburg which has one of the German machines whose 12 wheels encoded messages from the highest Nazi command.

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If anyone knows of a computer museum - they can have it.

The Start of week - I'll get around to it! by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

Museums are not typically associated with breakthroughs in software technology - but the Computer Museum in Boston, Massachusetts is probably a more likely institution than most to play host to such a development.

Softricity eases application delivery pain by Information Age (London, UK)

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