Personal Computer Museum, Computer museum in Brantford, Canada
The Personal Computer Museum was a computer museum in Brantford housing about 50 working computers from makers like Apple, Atari, Commodore, and IBM that visitors could operate themselves. The building was a former municipal structure made from bricks that once came from the Brantford Opera House.
The museum was founded in 2005 by Syd Bolton to collect working personal computers from the 1970s through 1990s. Its entire collection was transferred in 2018 to the University of Toronto Mississauga, where it remains housed in the library.
The museum showed computing history through hands-on displays where visitors could play games and try old programs themselves. This practical learning helped people of all ages understand how computer technology developed over time.
The museum opened on selected months and offered free admission to all visitors. The best time to visit was during special gaming nights or technology discussion events, which added extra activities to the regular exhibits.
The museum held a rare Extra Terrestrials Atari cartridge, a valuable collectors item from early gaming history. Upstairs, it maintained an extensive library housing thousands of computer magazines spanning multiple decades.
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