Museum of Computing

To preserve the history of computing

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Mission

The Objective of the museum is to save computing hardware and software that would otherwise be destroyed in order to preserve the history of the development of computing. This involves rescuing various items of hardware and software to prevent them being destroyed and forgotten.

Highlights

The of the current museum features the "Windows Experience" which enables visitors to get a “hands on" look and feel of the following Microsoft Windows interfaces: -

  • Try out the original Windows 1 on an IBM 5150 PC (CGA Graphics)
  • Try out Windows 1 on an IBM XT 5160 PC (EGA Color Graphics)
  • Try out Windows 2 on an IBM AT (Hercules Graphics)
  • Try out Windows 3 on an IBM PS1 (VGA Graphics)
  • Try out Windows 3 on an IBM PS2 (Italian Implementation)
  • Try out Windows XP on an IBM ThinkPad Laptop
  • Try out Windows NT on an IBM ThinkCentre

Future

A project to enable remote connections to this web site to enable visitors to connect directly to selected museum computers is underway. This will give website visitors a widow into the flowing systems: -

  • Run games on a Sinclair Spectrum ZX80
  • Run games on a Sinclair Spectrum 128K
  • Trying out the original character-based Windows 1.0 on an IBM XT PC
  • Running various systems using SIMH

Help

If anybody can contribute an interesting piece of computing software or hardware to the museum, We will find a Good home for it! Many items in the museums inventory have been acquired in this way. Please contact us using the web sites contacts page.