World's Largest WORKING Keyboard
(The Computer Museum History Center, Mountain View, CA, www.computerhistory.org) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes more than 3,000 hardware components and 7,000 films, videos and historical photos. The Computer Museum History Center was established in 1996, following its move from The Computer Museum in Boston. Now two separate entities, the original Computer Museum and some of its exhibits live on in Boston's Museum of Science, while the majority of equipment was moved to The Computer Museum History Center at Moffett Field in California. Only a fraction of the equipment is in visible storage, which can be viewed by appointment. The future home of the History Center will be in the California Air & Space Center, a 100,000 square-foot facility expected to be built on the grounds of Moffett Field.
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.
A boy has fun on the giant keyboard in the Boston Museum's Walk-Through Computer that opened at the end of 1995. (Image by FAYFOTO/John Rich; courtesy of The Computer Museum History Center.) |
Visitors explored the ceiling-high audio/video board inside the same exhibit as above. (Image by FAYFOTO/Keith Quenzel; courtesy of The Computer Museum History Center.) |
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