Living Computer Museum - a computer museum where you can touch everything, by Paul Allen

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen collects all sorts of equipment. At the same time, only in his backpack does he carry a couple of dozen different devices, including tablets, smartphones and other devices. collects Paul and the old technique, while it has already accumulated so much that he founded two museums ( Flying Heritage Collection and EPM Museum ). The other day there was the opening of the third museum, probably one of the most interesting museums of computer technology.

The fact is that, firstly, all the equipment in this museum is in working condition. Secondly, all the equipment can be touched, which cannot be done in any other museum of computer equipment. Living Computer Museum includes exhibits of the last 50 years of computer development. Not a single exhibit, even the most valuable, has a “do not touch it” hand, as there is no obstacle.
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Museum staff are working to ensure that all the exhibits are in working condition, regardless of how closely visitors are familiar with this technique. Everything here, from Radio Shack TRS-80 to PDP-7, is able to turn on and process data.

Paul Allen himself believes that his museums make it possible to give a certain guarantee that the work of ordinary engineers and researchers who have created a lot of useful things will not be forgotten. Both the website and the museum itself contain a large amount of information about many people who have paved the way for the progress of computing technology. Paul, he said, worked with each copy exhibited at the museum every day at certain times from the 1960s to the 1980s. And many Microsoft designs were created on these devices.