But today, that model is ready to begin making the transition over to the Computer Museum.
He founded a rock museum in Seattle as well as a computer museum that houses old mammoth-sized servers.
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He has performed at Bletchley Park and will return there this month to the National Computer Museum to play live with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Andrew Spencer of the Retro Computer Museum was demonstrating a Commodore VIC-20 which produced sounds and graphics illustrating what could be done with even a "quite limited" machine.
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Meanwhile, the basement morphed into an AV and computer museum.
He was also a founding contributor to the Computer History Museum History Center in Boston and then was a member of the Computer History Museum (CHM) when most of the artifacts from Boston were moved to Mountain View and combined with local historical equipment, including one of the original RAMACs.
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The event has grown so large that the firm moved it to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View Calif.
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The Mexican tech companies showcased their products and services at a gathering at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at the Computer History Museum on September 26, 2011 in Mountain View, California.
Potential candidates for the award are the restoration of the PDP 1 at the Computer History Museum or the recreation of Konrad Zuse's Z1.
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While it used to hold its demo day at its own offices, the event has become so popular that it has moved to the Computer History Museum.
After a few wrong turns and days exploring, I pulled up to the Computer History Museum to begin a remarkable day at the Social Innovation Summit.
Tony Sale was the brilliant engineer who rebuilt the Colossus computer, established The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park and founded the Computer Conservation Society.
The exhibition, entitled Marbles United, includes a computer simulated walk through the museum, showing the reunited marbles displayed in glass cases.
The 74-year old, who seems to have slowed down his creative output only marginally since his retirement last year, is currently working on a computer-animated short for his museum -- a rapid departure from his studio's distinctive, hand-drawn style.
He was the driving force behind the rebuild of the famous Colossus computer and one of the founders of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, as well as being a British spy-catcher.
Computer-generated "bots" seem to occupy the real space of the Museum's gallery, while images of Museum visitors are captured and projected into the work's imaginary world.
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Museum bosses said they hoped the new exhibition would also be a tribute to the man who recreated the computer.
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