American Computer Museum?

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:21:28PM -0500, John Foust wrote: Yes, in July after my brother's wedding (which was in Big Sky). There's an impressive collection of artifacts -- a (the?) Cal-Tech prototype electronic calculator, Gutenberg Bible, replica of the Antikythera Mechanism, '60s IBM computers, Speak-And-Spell, combination calculator/ abacus, and much more. Apparently most of the collection is not on display. Most museums' exhibits have individual themes and have no relationship to each other. (i.e., you would have an office automation exhibit, a game exhibit, a scientific computing exhibit, etc.) The Compuseum tries to tie everything together in a single timeline. So the Gutenberg Bible is not related to computing, but is related to the more fundamental issues of communication and information storage, which have recently been computerized. In the modern era the timeline splits up into themes anyway, but I still liked the idea. I had a hard time seeing some things (as usual) and the signs gave almost no technical information (as usual). There's a video but I didn't watch it. In short the presentation is not designed for the technical audience. The owner was out so I wrote my questions down for later. Incidentally, the operation started after the owner's wife told him the collection was too big... "Why don't you open a museum or something?" At least that's the story I recall. -- Derek