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Professions like art, history and literature have countless museums in their honor, but even regular non-entertaining fields like transportation and medicine have some destinations that could be of interest to the enthusiast. What about programming ? Are there any places of interest or historic significance that could amuse people with an interest in programming ? |
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The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, USA, as its web site states, "offers a wide variety of information, exhibits, research and a rich library of multimedia content garnered from some of the most influential people of the computing era. Take some time to dig deeper into computing history and the one-of-a-kind information available here." |
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Xerox Parc in Palo Alto California. The birth place to a lot of things common to us now. |
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The School of Engineering and Applied Science (formerly Moore School of Engineering) at the University of Pennsylvania has on display a remnant of ENIAC ("the first general-purpose, electronic computer"). |
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It's not a museum (and may not be open to the public) but I think Bell Labs deserves a mention. |
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The Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History in D.C. has a pretty impressive set of exhibits regarding the history of computers. If I remember correctly, they even have the original Wooden Apple-1 computer.
Update: That first link threw some (ironic) ColdFusion errors on a lot of the sub-links. Here is a more reliable page talking about the exhibit: Computers & Business Machines Exhibit |
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If you are in Austin Texas, there is a really decent computer museum surprisingly managed by Goodwill (yes the charity). They have a special unit for accepting donated electronics and I think they just started collecting historically significant computers from the donations and putting them on display with placards containing a brief history of the device. Goodwill Computerworks Austin Computer Museum They are still looking for donations of early computer technology to add to the museum. |
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The Science Museum in London also has several pieces that are important to the history of computers. Their exhibits include components from and reproductions of a few of Charles Babbage's machines. |
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(Quote from Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month) |
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The American Computer Museum in Bozeman, Montana, USA, showcases "the history of the information age while also offering in-depth displays for those who are serious technophiles". |
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Albuquerque - New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science START-UP - Albuquerque and the Personal Computer Revolution START-UP is the first museum exhibition dedicated to the history of the microcomputer - the little machine that revolutionized the way we live, work and play. The gallery features one-of-a-kind artifacts, video and interactive displays, including “Rise of the Machines” - an immersive multimedia theater experience. |
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