CHM Curators Discover Abandoned Warehouse of Rare Historical Computers in Germany
In 2006, CHM curators traveled to Germany to follow a lead on an abandoned collection of historical computing artifacts. In a three-story warehouse, they found a real-world timeline of computing…
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