American Computer Museum

The American Computer Museum, located in Bozeman, MT, is a museum of the history of computing. It was founded in May 1990 as a non-profit organization. Founded by Barbara and George Keremedjiev and originally intended to be located in Princeton, NJ, the museum's location was changed to Bozeman, MT when the museum's founders moved there. It may be the oldest museum dedicated to the history of computers in the world. The Boston Computer museum opened first but closed in 1999.

The museum's mission is "To collect, preserve, interpret and display the artifacts and history of the information age"

Awards

The American Computer Museum won the Dibner Award for Excellence in Exhibits in 1994.

The American Computer Museum presents (with the Computer Science Department of Montanta State Univeristy) the George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards, named for George R. Stibitz who first used relays for computation in 1937.

1997. Arthur Burks , Chuan Chu , Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman , James Van Tassel , Maury Irvine , Eldon Hall , Ted Hoff , Federico Faggin
1998. Ed Roberts, Doug Engelbart
1999. James Harris, Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn
2000. Steve Wozniak, Tim Berners-Lee, Ray Tomlinson
2001. Ted Hoff , Federico Faggin and Stan Mazor (together)
2002. Ralph Baer, Martin Cooper , Leroy Hood, Klein Gilhousen , James Russell , Jon Titus

Items in the Museum's Collection

• Arithmometer
• Model K computer (replica)
• Historical documents related to the history of computing such as original copies of Newton's The Enlightenment and Locke's Humane Understanding
• Telegraph, telephone, cash registers, and office equipment
• The IBM_1620, IBM_360, Univac 1004, and other mainframe hardware from the 1960's and 1970's
• Analog computers
• Minicomputers
• Signed microcomputing artifacts
• Burroughs 205 (1954)
• Personal computers
• typewriters
• mechanical adding machines
• slide rules
• hand-held mechanical calculators
• IBM_409 (relay based tabulator)
• IBM_604 (vacuum tube calculator)
• IBM_1620 (early transistor machine)
• IBM_360 mainframe
• IBM System/3 mainframe
• analog computers
• PDP-8, PDP-8/1 (desktop minicomputers)
• Altair, IMSAI, Commodore PET, SOL, Apple II, III, Lisa, MAC, KIM, SYM (microcomputers)
• electromechanical/electronic calculators
• Friden, SCM, Monroe, Mathatron, Anita, Wang (electromechanical/electronic calculators)
• mechanical, electrical and electronic toys (such as Consul the Educated Monkey (1918), Pong)
• an industrial robot
• an Apollo Guidance Computer on loan from the Smithsonian
• diplays covering topics such as computer memory (ex.: Selectron Tube, core panels, delay lines, etc.), history of electronics
• A Norden bombsight