
REMARKABLE PEOPLE
"Go off and do something wonderful”
Robert Noyce is best known as the cofounder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. Four stories from the life of Bob Noyce offer glimpses into what made him one of the twentieth century’s most important inventors and entrepreneurs. More...
COLLECTION
Rescued Treasures: A Curators Personal Account
It was a curator’s dream: A forgotten warehouse filled to the brim with computer artifacts, from Depression-era punch card equipment to mainframes and
mini-computers. More...
INDUSTRY TALES
The IT Corporate Histories Project
Stories bring history to life. With a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Museum reached out to those who worked at early information technology companies and collected their pioneering tales. More...
CONVERSATIONS
The Oral Histories Project
What was it like to work at Apple in the early 1980s? In this excerpt from the Museum’s Oral History Collection, Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, major contributors to the creation of the Macintosh, share anecdotes from the early days of Apple. More...
HISTORIC IMAGES
Why Take Pictures of Computers?
The vision of photographer Mark Richards helps us look at computers in new ways as representations of their inventors’ ideas and dreams and lives. More...
EXPLORE THE COLLECTION
A Sampling of Objects from Five Collections
Slide-a-Mat Retailing System prototype, Man & Computer, 16-mm film, IBM System/360 sales models, MacHack VI vs. Hubert Dreyfus, paper tape, Typed resignation letter from J. Presper Eckert, Jr., to Dr. Pender. More..