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Address:
Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam / Department of Computer Science, Science Park 904, 1098XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Opening Hours:
By appointment.

Contact:
Dr. E.H. Dooijes, Curator
e.h.dooijes@uva.nl
Phone: +31.20.525.7523 or 7465
Fax: +31.20.525.7490

Links:
Computermuseum
University of Amsterdam

Description:
The emphasis of the collection of the Computer Museum is on technical and scientific electronic computing equipment from World War II up till today. 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.

Most 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the original peripheral devices, we are able to read data from media like punched cards, papertape, and a variety of outdated magnetic storage media.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.

(From the Museum's website)