Computer History Museum

Technology San Francisco, California

The Computer History Museum is a museum founded in 1996 in Mountain View, California. This place is home to the largest and most significant collection of computer artifacts, including rare and one-of-a-kind items such as a Cray-1 supercomputer, a Cray-2, the Cray-3 upon request, and parts of the Cray-4, the completely magnetic by Hewitt Crane, an Apple I, an example of the first generation Google design work and Galaxy Game the first arcade video game ever made. The museum currently has three unique exhibits highlighting important milestones in the history of the computer, visible memory, the history of chess software, and the inventions of Silicon Valley companies and people.

The museum holds more than 100.000 items including hardware, ephemera, photographs, moving images, documents and software artifacts. You can see all the records and personal papers from corporations, CEO's, computer science luminaries, female entrepreneurs and inventors. So, if you are a computer lover visit this very interesting museum in which you can trace a basic piece of our history.