Collection
Items in the museum's collection include the following.
- Antikythera mechanism (replica), earliest known geared mechanism, circa 100 B.C.
- Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator
- Model K (replica built for the museum by its inventor, George R. Stibitz)
- Apple 1 Computer (donated by Steve Wozniak)
- Minuteman 1 Missile Guidance Computer
- Historical documents related to the history of computing such as original copies of Newton's The Enlightenment and Locke's Humane Understanding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 System/360, Univac 1004, and other mainframe hardware from the 1960s and 1970s
- 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 System/360 mainframe
- IBM System/3 computer
- PDP-8, PDP-8/1 (desktop minicomputers)
- Altair, IMSAI, Commodore PET, SOL, Apple II, III, Lisa, Mac, KIM, SYM, etc. (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
- Displays covering topics such as computer memory (for example: Selectron Tube, core panels, delay lines, etc.), history of electronics, etc.
- A Norden bombsight
- The above is a partial list of the thousands of artifacts, books, documents, images, etc. in the American Computer Museum's holdings
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