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  Our Story, the Center for Cisco Heritage

  Wednesday, April 26, 2017

  The Center for Cisco Heritage, managed by the Computer History Museum, unveiled a new exhibit, Our Story, on March 31, 2017, bringing together big names from Cisco’s 30-plus year history of innovation. Former and current employees, including a former CEO or two, mingled with local archivists and spoke on the importance

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  A Look Back at 2016 on @CHM

  Friday, January 6, 2017

  The start of a new year is always an exciting time, a time when the world brims with potential, a time when anything is possible. It’s also a time to reflect on the last year, accomplishments and achievements, what worked and what didn’t.

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  A Haunted Tour of Silicon Valley

  Monday, October 31, 2016

  Silicon Valley is known for its cutting-edge technology, creative innovation, and forward-looking frame of mind. But the Valley also has a lesser-known side—a spookier side.

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  The Digital Repository at CHM

  Tuesday, October 18, 2016

  If you’ve heard about digital preservation in the news, chances are it was a story about loss or potential loss. For almost 20 years now, we’ve been warned that we could be facing a “digital dark age,” meaning that very little of what we create using computers will be preserved for future generations.1 The challenges f

• Behind the Scenes, Education

  Adventures in CHM Interning, Part 2

  Tuesday, September 6, 2016

  The Computer History Museum inspires people from all over the world every day, and this summer, the Museum became a place where 18 high school students engaged with history, explored their passions, and discovered their strengths. This is part two of two of CHM’s High School Internship Program blog series, compiled and

• Behind the Scenes, Education

  Adventures in CHM Interning, Part 1

  Tuesday, August 30, 2016

  The Computer History Museum inspires people from all over the world every day, and this summer, the Museum became a place where 18 high school students engaged with history, explored their passions, and discovered their strengths. This is part one of two of CHM’s High School Internship Program blog series, compiled and

• Behind the Scenes, Curatorial Insights

  In His Own Words: John Blankenbaker

  Tuesday, April 5, 2016

  John V. Blankenbaker, the inventor of the Kenbak, has a long career in computing, dating back to the 1950s. His association with the Museum dates back to the early 1980s when the Kenbak was named “The First PC” in the Computer Museum’s Earliest PC contest in 1986.

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  Letters to Lovelace Competition at CHM

  Tuesday, January 19, 2016

  The year 2015 marked Ada Lovelace’s 200th birthday, and, in honor of her mathematical and artistic achievements, the Computer History Museum (CHM) began a year-long celebration to commemorate her legacy with exciting Museum-wide events. Among them was our Letters to Lovelace competition, which asked girls across the Un

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  Maxing Out the Minimal: CHM’s Archives Processing Project Is Underway

  Tuesday, October 20, 2015

  In 2014 the Museum applied for and received a $274,560 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to process a portion of its backlog over a span of two years. We are now six months into CHM’s Archives Processing Project (CHM APP), and we have a lot to report.

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  Catalysts for Memory: Online Access to the vast CHM Collection

  Wednesday, May 13, 2015

  Whether it’s a “Speak & Spell” educational game or an IBM mainframe computer, everyone finds something from their own lives on display at CHM — but there’s more to the museum than meets the eye. As the largest international collection of computing artifacts, the museum only displays a fraction of its over 100,000 ite