This article originally appeared on Jan. 15, 2019. For a technology that’s relatively new, there’s no shortage of museums devoted to computers and computing technology. In the U.S. alone there are ...
In 2017 I went up to Seattle for PAX as usual, and while I was up there I heard about the Living Computer Museum, an institution in southern Seattle founded by Paul Allen to preserve PC history. I ...
Most stories in the history of computing took place in one of a small number of places. The wartime code-breaking effort in Bletchley Park led to Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer.