Universiteit van Amsterdam / The Netherlands

October 2009

The emphasis of the collection of the Computer Museum is on technical and scientific electronic computing equipment from World War II to the present day. However the collection also includes tools from the pre-computer era: mechanical, electromechanical and electronic calculators, slide rules and tables. There are some word-processors and a small collection of home computers. Accounting machines, game computers and the like are beyond the scope of this museum.
Many of the machines are in working order, equipped with original system and application software and fully documented.

Using the original peripheral devices, we are able to read data from media like punched cards, papertape, and a variety of outdated magnetic storage media. Usually these data are transfered to CD-ROM, however we can also make copies to similar media in most cases.

The collection will be shown by the curator on request.

Choose one of the topics below or enter a search term at the bottom of this page:

• inventory listing; links to specific objects
• Willem Bartjens: the first Dutch computer
• a working relay computer
• on-line and downloadable documents and software
• technical notes
• use of computers in education
• the Electrologica X1 and X8 computers
• papertape
• EAI/680 and other analog computer systems
• books, documentation, magazines and journals and paraphernalia
• maintenance history & copyright notice
• selected Computer History sites and other useful sites

The Computer Museum is one of the Special Collections of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. It enjoys hospitality of the Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Science.

Curator of the Museum is Dr. E.H. Dooijes, phone (+31)(0)651327306; email e.h.dooijes@uva.nl
Preferably use email; for urgent matters you also may call the Institute's secretariat at (+31)(0)20.525.7460.

Committee of Recommendation:

• H. Blankesteijn, science writer
• Dr L.O. Hertzberger, University Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Amsterdam
• Dr R.T. Jongerius, formerly Managing Director, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Amsterdam
• Dr F.E.J. Kruseman Aretz, Professor Emeritus, Technical University Eindhoven

Technical Committee:

• Edo H. Dooijes
• Henk Z. Peek

Location:

Computer Museum

University of Amsterdam / Informatics Institute

Science Park 107

1098XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Computer Museum's depository is in the University Library building, Meibergdreef 29, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam.