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Highlights from
The Computer Museum Reports

"The Computer Museum" of Boston issued a series of reports during the period of "1/1982" through "Spring 1988". The goal of this page is to provide the highlights of this series, primarily for the trainning of museum docents. About 3/4 of the major articles are included and about 1/2 of the associated images.

Informational paragraphs about individual artifacts are not included, but are an interesting source of additional information.

Rights to these documents are held by "Computer History Museum".

Note that an Index is in Volume 16.

Volume 1, Digital Computer Museum Report 1/1982 - The Museum is in Marlboro, Mass
Volume 2, Fall 1982
The Apollo Guidance Computer | Whirlwind before Core
Volume 3, Winter 1983
Descriptions of early computers
Volume 4, Spring 1983
D.H. Lehmer's Number Sieves | Inside "The Soul of a New Machine"
Watson Scientific Laboratory, 1945-1950 | North Bay SAGE installation
Volume 5, Summer 1983
ILLIAC IV | Collecting, Exhibiting and Archiving
Volume 6, Fall 1983
The Origin of Space War | Developing Univac's Plated Thin Film Metal Recording Tape
Volume 7, Winter 1983/1984 - The Musuem is closed for the move
Harvard Mark III. | Computers: A Look at the First Generation | The Core Process:
Volume 8, Spring 1984
The TX-0: Its Past and Present
Volume 9, Summer 1984
Computer Engineering Attitudes | IBM System/360
Volume 10, Fall 1984
The Apple I
Volume 11, Winter 1984/1985 - Grand Re-Opening, 13 November 1984 at Museum Wharf, downtown Boston
Exhibits | Seymour Cray | The Integrated Circuit:
Volume 12, Spring 1984
Howard Hathaway Aiken, The Life of a Computer Pioneer
Volume 13, Summer 1984
Computer Animation in the Museum | COBOL Tombstone | RCA in the Fifties
Volume 14, Fall/Winter 1985
Evolution of "C & C", A Japanese Aspect | The Collection
Volume 15, Spring 1986
Mouseathon | First 16-bit Mini to Fault Tolerant Computers | Film Clips | Little Character
Volume 16, Summer 1986
ENIAC | Visicalc and Software Arts | Index to The Computer Museum Report | Colors of Chaos
Volume 17, Fall 1986
The Early Model Personal Computer Contest | Stephen Wozniak | Micral | Kenbak-1 | Altair 8800
Volume 18, Winter 1987
Pocket Calculatory, Jettons, Abacus, Scientists' Instruments, Slide Rules, Electronic Calculators
Volume 19, Spring 1987
Memories, Stories Behind the Devices | Entrepreneurism: ... Computing in the USA
Volume 20, Summer/Fall 1987
Smart Machines, AI, robots
Volume 21, Winter 1987/88
Joint Collecting Agreement | Early History of LEO: First Data Processing Computer
Volume 22, Spring 1988
The Beginnings of Computer Games | Rogue | Whirlwind's Genesis and Descendants | Sage

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Highlights from The Computer Museum Reports

Highlights from
The Computer Museum Reports