Every machine here
changed the world.
Most fit in this room.
12,000 artifacts. Eight decades of silicon, copper, and imagination. The garage workbenches where billion-dollar ideas first drew breath.
Permanent Collection
Eight decades,
one corridor.
Each card is an era. Each era a leap. Scroll through the machines that rewired civilization.
ENIAC
The first general-purpose electronic computer. 18,000 vacuum tubes. 30 tons. Programmed entirely by women.
"I've always been more interested in the future than in the past."
Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral, USN · Inventor of the Compiler
IBM 650
The most popular computer of the 1950s. Magnetic drum memory. 2,000 operations per second.
PDP-8
The first mass-produced minicomputer. It made computing personal — long before personal computing.
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing it was human."
Alan Turing
Father of Theoretical Computer Science
Intel 4004
The first commercially available microprocessor. 2,300 transistors on a chip smaller than a fingernail.
Apple I
Hand-soldered by Wozniak in a garage. 200 units. The machine that started everything.
"The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before."
Bill Gates
Co-founder, Microsoft
NeXT Cube
The machine on which Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web server. This box invented the World Wide Web.
Touch the machines
that touched the future.
IBM 7094
The machine that guided NASA's Project Mercury. Stands 7 feet tall. You can walk inside it.
PDP-11
The computer that Unix was written on. Touch the panel. Feel what Kernighan and Ritchie touched.
Apple I
200 units. Hand-soldered. One of 6 surviving examples in working condition. This is one of them.
Cray-1
The fastest computer on earth for a decade. Shaped like a C to minimize wire length. Seymour Cray's obsession.
NeXT Cube
Tim Berners-Lee's personal machine. The first web server ran on this exact model. The internet started here.
Who Visits
There is a visit
designed for you.
A full semester in one afternoon.
Curriculum-aligned docent tours that cover computing history from Babbage to Berners-Lee. Hands-on punch card programming. Kids leave knowing why they hold the most powerful computer in history in their pocket.
You built this world.
Come back to the machines you programmed. Touch the toggle switches you know by memory. Share your stories with our oral history archive.
Inspiration retreats that actually inspire.
Your team will leave the IBM 7094 corridor with a different relationship to impossible problems. Private after-hours tours. Custom workshop facilitation.
Next Exhibition · Opening March 15, 2026
The Garage Era:
When $1,300 Changed Everything
A new permanent wing dedicated to the personal computing revolution — original Altair 8800 kits, Wozniak's soldering iron, and the actual HP garage workbench where it all began.