Computer Museum of America

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Sun Microsystems computers at the museum
Computer Museum of America
EstablishedJuly 2019;5 years ago (2019-07)
Location Roswell, Georgia
Coordinates 34°02′19″N84°20′28″W / 34.038718°N 84.340978°W / 34.038718; -84.340978
Type Computer museum
Website www.computermuseumofamerica.org

The Computer Museum of America is located in Roswell, Georgia and opened in July 2019 to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Moon landing. It is the largest technology museum on the East Coast with the opening of Phase I and when completed will be among the largest in the world. [1]

The museum was founded by Lonnie Mimms, a commercial real estate developer and longtime computing artifact collector, [2] who originally operated an Apple pop up museum, and includes rare artifacts including a Cray-1, Apple I, Apple Lisa, a Pixar Image Computer, an Enigma, a Xerox Alto, a MITS Altair 8800 and more. The collection includes the contents of the former Bugbook Historical Computer Museum. While the museum shows many items, they are only a fraction of his 300,000 plus in the collection. [3] [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. ↑ Greenfield, David (15 January 2019). "Computer Museum of America Aims to Connect Technology and People". Automation World. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  2. ↑ Schlosser, Kurt (2024-09-12). "Paul Allen estate sells remaining Living Computers artifacts and systems to museum near Atlanta". GeekWire. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
  3. ↑ Berrios, Laura. "A lifelong collector of digital artifacts is on a mission to document history". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN   1539-7459 . Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  4. ↑ Grochowski, Julia (27 December 2019). "Computer museum opens doors to the future". Appen Media. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  5. ↑ Ranaivo, Yann (1 May 2016). "Floyd man moves 30-ton collection of electronics to Atlanta suburb". The Roanoke Times. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  6. ↑ Lahkani, Asif (6 August 2019). "The world's largest collection of vintage supercomputers is in Roswell, Georgia". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved 28 October 2020.


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