Universiteit van Amsterdam / The Netherlands
The Computer Museum was established in 1991. The emphasis of its collection is on technical and scientific electronic computing equipment, illustrating the progress in computer technology and its use from World War II to the present day.
In order to show how scientific computing was done in the pre-computer era, the collection includes mechanical, electromechanical and electronic calculators, slide rules and table-books.
Accounting machines, home and game computers are beyond the scope of this museum, except when serving the stated purpose.
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the original peripheral devices, we are able to read data from media like punched cards, papertape, and a variety of outdated magnetic storage media.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 (by email). Maximum group size is 10.
Note: The Computer Museum has recently been moved to a new location. It will be announced here when moving and rearranging of the Museum are completed.
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.
Curator of the Museum is Dr. E.H. Dooijes: T 0205257523; M 0651327306; E e.h.dooijes@uva.nl.
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
NEW Location:
- Computer Museum
- University of Amsterdam
- Science Park 904
- 1098XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Computer Museum's depository is in the University Library building, Meibergdreef 29, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam.
January 26, 2012
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