DigiBarn Computer Museum

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The DigiBarn Computer Museum, or simply DigiBarn, is a computer history museum in Boulder Creek, California, United States. 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. It was co-founded by Bruce Damer[1] and Allan Lundell on May 7, 2001.[2]

The primary focus of the museum's collection is on the birth and evolution of personal,

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

Atari 400, Osborne 1, Kaypro II and the IBM 5150 (IBM PC).[3]

As of December 2021, most of the collection is on a long-term loan at the System Source Computer Museum.[4]

References

  1. ^ DigiBarn Computer Museum: About Us or Why are We Doing This?
  2. ^ DigiBarn Friends: Allan Lundell
  3. news.com. 2007-08-18. Archived from the original
    on 2008-09-06.
  4. ^ Digibarn Computer Museum. "Home". Archived from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2022-03-13.

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