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For over 20 years, Brantford Local Computer Guru SYD BOLTON has dreamed of opening a museum to showcase the history of personal computers. Many children have no idea about life before a ‘mouse’, when ‘green screens’ ruled the day, and a time well before the Internet was available to everyone. Relive your earlier computer days or find out how we roughed it in the 70’s and 80’s. Over 45 interactive computer displays, over 1,000 computers in total. Apple • Atari • Amiga • Commodore • Macintosh • Radio Shack • IMSAI • IBM • Next • Mattel • Timex • Xerox • Coleco • Dell

Radio Shack has been in business since 1921, over 90 years. For 65 of those years, they have produced an outstanding electronics and technology catalog, surpassing the catalog of all rival companies. Through the decades, this catalog expanded to contain a mix of hi-fidelity stereos, amplifiers, radios, phonographs, speakers, TVs, CBs, communication equipment, desktop & laptop computers, electronic components, antennas, electronic test equipment, educational kits, toys, gadgets, appliances, tools, batteries, and much more.

Since it is so hard to find information about computers and thier history on the Web, I thought hard about this section. For most of my life, I have been keeping, collecting, storing, shuffling and re-organizing my old computer stuff. When friends would ask me why I was keeping all this stuff, I would say it was for my eventual Computer Museum.

The Digital Mona print is an iconic example and fusion between arguably the most recognizable and famous piece of artwork in man's history - by the most famous inventor of all time, and the very dawning of digital age technology.

The computer museum was initiated in 2003 as a private company under the legal registration of a museum. It also is registered as an art gallery having the ability to do displays, services related to the same and branding. It has now existed for the last 7years making an annual revenue of up to $80000. With such a figure, the company seems to be doing well for itself, boasting of over 3000 different items on display.

The Museum of Computing is devoted to the history of computing and digital development. It was the first physical museum of it's kind in the UK dedicated to the history of computing. The Museum is not simply a repository of artefacts, but has active displays as well as providing a forum for the provision of lectures. There is a mixture of permanent and temporary displays, many exhibits of which have been loaned by companies and other collectors.The Museum is keen to show former products of commercial computer companies, and welcomes such offers.

A searchable list of computer and calculator collections and museums. Includes links to both public and private collections. A treasure trove of collectible calculating machine information!

IPSJ Computer Museum is a virtual museum where you can find information about historical Japanese computers and the people engaged in the development of those computers. Half a century has passed since the development of Japan's first electronic computers, FUJIC and ETL Mark III in 1956. Explanations and photos of computers developed during this period and related many materials are displayed at this museum.

An History of Bull and of acquired and parent companies: A summary history of the French computer manufacturer Bull and of its parent companies, including the computer divisions of General Electric and Honeywell that have been eventually incorporated in Bull through a somewhat tumultuous history.

Museum of Old-computers.