Computers & Business Machines - Overview Imagine the loss, 100
years from now, if museums hadn't begun preserving the artifacts
of the computer age. The last few decades offer proof positive
of why museums must collect continuously—to document
technological and social transformations already underway. The
Museum's collections contain mainframes, minicomputers,
microcomputers, and handheld devices. A Cray2 supercomputer is
part of the collections, along with one of the towers of IBM's
Deep Blue, the computer that defeated reigning champion Garry
Kasparov in a chess match in 1997. Other artifacts range from
personal computers to ENIAC, the Altair, and the Osborne 1.
Computer components and peripherals, games, software, manuals,
and other documents are part of the collections. Some of the
instruments of business include adding machines, calculators,
typewriters, dictating machines, fax machines, cash registers,
and photocopiers