The Computer History Museum is a Mountain View museum that preserves the history of the information age, presenting a variety of artifacts and recounted histories related to the computer industry and its impact on broader society. The museum began out of a 1970s Whirlwind computer preservation project by Gordon Bell and operated for several decades in Massachusetts before merging with the artifacts of the TCM History Center and moving to Silicon Valley in 2002. Today, it offers a wide variety of exhibits on early computing history and houses what is reported to be the largest collection of computing artifacts in the world, including the Cray-1 supercomputer, the 1969 Neiman Marcus Kitchen Computer, and an Apple I. More than 700 video interviews are also contained within the museum's oral history collection.

1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043, Phone: 650-810-1010

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