Paper Info
Title
Out of a closet: the early years of the computer museum
Abstract
The 2011 opening at the Computer History Museum of the world's largest and most complete physical and cyber exhibit of computing history marks the sixth stage of a public museum's evolution, which began in 1975 with a closet-sized exhibit in a Digital Equipment Corporation building, migrating to The Computer Museum, Boston. It now lives in an 119,000 square foot public home in Silicon Valley. This chance/luck driven evolution of an institution is due to the dedication and leadership of a few people who persuaded hundreds of others that the endeavor was worthwhile and needed their support. Gwen Bell, The Computer Museum's founding director, and Len Shustek, the founding chairman of the Computer History Museum were committed to its success! Behind nearly every artifact, exhibit, and pioneering effort is a story that the museum is dedicated to understand and tell. This is the story leading to the Computer History Museum.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-24541-1_11
Dependable and Historic Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital equipment corporation building,computer museum,gwen bell,founding chairman,public home,founding director,closet-sized exhibit,computer history,early year,public museum,cyber exhibit
Corporation,Closet,Visual arts,Luck,Engineering,Computer history,Square foot,Silicon valley
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gordon Bell11050532.60