Hisham Sarwar
Do you know there is a living computer museum in Seattle, WA USA?.
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has assembled a collection of different computers used in last few decades. He has taken this initiative to preserve the history that put him and his friend (co-founder) Bill gates in founding tech giant, Microsoft.
The Museum is currently featuring…
- 7 Mainframes
- 10 Minicomputers
- 45 Microcomputers
It is possible that no other technology on earth has so continually renewed itself as computer technology. Advances in this field arrive in such swift succession that even the software and hardware of a few seasons ago are considered obsolete. The decades-old computers and software in this collection, therefore, are truly worthy of our preservation and study – both for the cutting-edge innovations of their day as well as for their historical significance.
The Living Computer Museum also fulfills my hope that the achievements of early computer engineers aren’t lost to time. I wanted to provide a website and repository that recognized the efforts of those creative engineers who made some of the early breakthroughs in interactive computing that changed the world.
I hope you enjoy learning more about these remarkable machines. I certainly had a ball using them in their heyday – from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. During that period almost all Microsoft development was done on these platforms.
