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A computer museum is devoted to the study of historic computer hardware and software, where a "museum" is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates, and exhibits the ''tangible and intangible'' heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and enjoyment", as defined by the International Council of Museums. Some computer museums exist within larger institutions, such as the Science Museum in London and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Others, such as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, Montana, the (Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum ) in Paderborn, The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park and The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, Nexon Computer Museum in Jeju Province are dedicated specifically to computing. Some specialize in the early history of computing, others in the era that started with the first personal computers such as the Apple I and Altair 8800, Apple IIs, older Apple Macintoshes, Commodore Internationals, Amigas, IBM PCs and more rare computers such as the Osborne 1. Some concentrate more on research and conservation, others more on education and entertainment. There are also private collections, most of which can be visited by appointment. The term "museum" has expanded in common usage to encompass online collections, in much the same way other activities have made the transition ("online shopping", "online gallery", etc.). Online museums range in type and quality from those that collate and preserve material to those that simply display photographs of hardware from other sources. They are distinct from traditional museums mainly in that the exhibits can not be physically touched or interacted with in the traditional sense. Some notable museums and collections are shown below; however this is not a "List of ..." article. For known lists of computer museums or collections see the "See also" section. ==Online== *(Bitsavers ) – Extensive software and document archive. *(Bull computer History ) *Charles Babbage Institute *Computer History Museum *(Computermuseum at the University of Stuttgart ) (Stuttgart, Germany) – Almost all exhibits are functional *(Columbia University Computing History ) *(Early Office Museum ) – Bookkeeping, adding, calculating, tabulating machines. *(ENIAC Museum, University of Pennsylvania ) *(IBM Archives ) *(Information Processing Society of Japan – IPSJ Computer Museum ) *Living Computer Museum – "...provides registered users with the opportunity to telnet into these devices and experience computing on 'antique' mainframes" *(old-computers.com ) – , it includes 935 computers, 84 consoles and 98 pongs. *(Russian Virtual Computer Museum ) *(EveryMac.com ) – "Established in 1996, EveryMac.com is the complete guide to every Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad and Mac clone in the world..." *(The Computer Collector ) *(The Computer Museum, Boston (TCM). Archives of the Computer History Museum ) *Virtual Museum of Computing – "...an eclectic collection of links and online resources" *(Videocard virtual museum ) *(The Apple Museum ) – A private collection of over 1200 items related to the history of Apple Inc. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「computer museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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