DigiBarn Computer Museum |
95006 Boulder Creek, CA, United States of America (USA) (California) |
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Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Opening times
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Only by appointment. Closed in the rainy winter months. | ||||
Status from 04/2017
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We don't know the fees. | ||||
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Homepage | www.digibarn.com |
Location / Directions |
The museum is housed in a 90-year-old barn constructed from old-growth Redwood in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which is adjacent to Silicon Valley. The DigiBarn is a ninety plus years old barn constructed of old growth redwood that is part of the original "Ancient Oaks Ranch", a 19th century farmstead nestled deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Northern California. Please contact Bruce Damer for directions to Ancient Oaks Farm: www.damer.com/forms/newcomment.php |
Description | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The primary focus of the museum's collection is on the birth and evolution of personal, interactive computing, starting with the LINC (1962), considered by some to be the first true personal computer, and leading on up through the homebrew microcomputer revolution of the 1970s, the propagation of personal computing to homes and businesses in the 1980s and the spread of networked computing in the 1990s. The Digibarn does have a few large machines on display such as a Cray-1 supercomputer. One notable point is that a large number of the Digibarn artifacts are available to visitors in a hands-on fashion; allowing them to boot up, load software and interact with the machines. The Digibarn collection has mainly been donated by individuals and companies in nearby Silicon Valley and around the world. The Digibarn has a major focus on the legacy of Xerox and the birth of the Graphical User Interface with a large collection of |
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