Talk:Computer History Museum

Current Status Update

I made some minor changes to the "Current" section. One of the exhibits has closed. I moved "Revolution: the First 2000 Years of Computing" to top billing as it is the main emphasis of the museum now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Man Servant Hecubus (talk • contribs) 16:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

time to use

4,000 linear feet of catalogued documentation. hmm.. (1) Is this for thickness? (2) Isn't it about time to use miles? Mikkalai 20:00, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Other Computer History Museums ?

Hello,

I'd suggest at least a note that this is NOT the ONLY computer museum in this world !

But the Wikipedia entry "computer museum" just suggests that.

I could tell about at least one computer history museum in Germany, the Nixdorf-Museum in the University town of Paderborn.

Alrik Fassbauer (talk) 16:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Computer museum lists several such museums. There is no need to modify this article to list others. Create a new article for any other such museums you know of (and add them to computer museum's list). -- RTC (talk) 21:20, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you are thinking of the Heinz Nixdorf Museum? -- RTC (talk) 23:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

The following text is somewhat confusing

When The Computer Museum (TCM, in Boston), which closed in 1999, sent the majority of its historical collection to Moffett Field, California, it was known as the West Coast division of The Computer Museum and named The Computer Museum History Center. Its current name was established in 2001. In February 2000, the Museum's historical artifacts were sent to The Computer Museum History Center at Moffett Field. Originally located in an old building that was previously the Naval Base furniture store, the Museum acquired its current building (previously occupied by Silicon Graphics), at 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View, California, USA (Silicon Valley) in October 2002. It opened there to the public in June 2003.

In the first sentence "When ... sent" is undated so we don't know when "it was known as" (we know when TCM closed; that is not, as written, the same thing as when sent). In the the third sentence "the Museum's historical artifacts" is likely not a reference to this museum. When was the West Coast division established? When did TCM send the majority...? With TCM's majority accounted for, what is the Museum's historical artifacts referencing - a different museum? Originally located - when? (probably relates to the West Coast division). Events need to be dated and text should be in date sequence. 69.106.231.233 (talk) 21:32, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

History has been updated per Bell's paper - it had all the details. 69.106.231.233 (talk) 20:40, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

News article to consider for inclusion

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/restorations-2/

"The Strange Beauty of Historic Computers Brought Back From the Dead", by BY CADE METZ, February 27, 2013 in Wired (wired.com). --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:43, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

cool

this is the best history in the nation — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.10.255 (talk) 19:23, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hello from the new exhibit!

We're editing from the new Wikipedia exhibit at the CHM. Hi! Come see it! - Pete, Sabahat, and Andrew — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.204.185.134 (talk) 04:09, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Congratulations! How about taking a photo of the new exhibit and uploading it to Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard so we might include it in this article?--agr (talk) 04:18, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Merge two articles about the same museum

This article refers to the same museum described in the article The Computer Museum, Boston.

I suggest that it makes sense to either merge these two articles, or to rename this article "The Computer Museum, Mountain View" and rewrite the text so that it describes only the portion of the Mountain View museum history beginning in 1996. At the moment this article makes no sense, as it states that the museum opened in Mountain View in 1996, but then has a section about previous exhibits which took place one and six years earlier. The "Walk-Through Computer" exhibit actually took place in Boston, and is already described in the article The Computer Museum, Boston. --Bob (talk) 20:01, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Is it correct that that the whole museum moved from Boston to Mountain View? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 21:31, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Reading from The Computer Museum, Boston, it certainly sounds as though the Boston museum founded the museum in California before quitting Boston. But the dates surrounding the California branch seem to vary wildly, so I suspect there's a lot of crossed wires. If I knew which template was most appropriate to warn that an article has problems then I'd add it to this article (about the California branch). --Bob (talk) 18:58, 23 September 2020 (UTC)