This series contains annual reports, semi-annual reports, and The Computer Museum News newsletter published between 1975 and 1998, with the majority of material dating from 1982 through 1998. Information on events, lectures, and exhibitions held at the Museum, board members and employees, as well as lists of new acquisitions and donors can be found in the reports and newsletter. The series may be accessed at http://tcm.computerhistory.org/reports.html .

The forty-two videos in this series fall into three major groups. The first group contains lectures by the pioneer’s who built the first computers and pioneering technologies. Wes Clark’s lecture on LINC as the first PC or workstation for biomedical research, and Bob Evans' description as the leader of the IBM System/360 fall outside this more narrow definition. The second group of videos is a two part lecture by Gordon Bell titled Computer Pioneers and Pioneer Computers about the first computers, and the people who built them. These were jointly sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and The Computer Museum. The third group of videos is a miscellaneous collection of talks, videotaped tours of the Museum, and films produced by entities other than TCM. Robert Noyce’s lecture from the opening of the Museum in Boston in May 1984 is especially noteworthy for its content and the fact that it is one of the few known video recordings of Noyce. The series may be accessed at http://tcm.computerhistory.org/videos.html .

This series contains information about the ten major exhibitions at the Museum’s locations in Maynard, Marlborough, and Boston. The first exhibition was a display of various logic and memory technologies of vacuum tube and transistor generations in a converted coat closet of the main entrance lobby of DEC’s building 12 in Maynard. The exhibition was 8 x 3 feet. After the Museum relocated to DEC’s Marlborough building, the exhibitions were constructed in the building’s large lobby. This is also where the majority of lectures took place. Seven of the Museum’s exhibitions were developed after its move to Boston where they had 53,000 square feet of exhibit space, including a store. Exhibitions in Boston covered smart machines; the life size Walk Through Computer; Milestones of a Revolution (timeline of history); Tools and Toys, about games and desktop application; Networking; and a Virtual FishTank simulating the behavior of fish in a large tank. Information is also included on the traveling pocket computing exhibition On the one hand. Included in the series are descriptions of each of the ten exhibitions along with credits and basic statistics, as well as administrative records such as proposals, press kits, notes, promotional material, correspondence, labels, and catalogs, which come from the “File archives” series. The series may be accessed at http://tcm.computerhistory.org/exhibits.html .

From 1988 to 1998 the Museum held a Computer Bowl which pitted two teams of East and West coast technologists against each other in a battle of computer trivia to benefit the Museum. The Bowls were videotaped except for 1989, 1996, and 1997, and all the questions were published in The Official Computer Bowl Trivia Book . Notable contestants included Bill Gates, Larry Tessler, Andy Hertzfeld, Joseph Alsop, and Adele Goldberg. This series contains the videotaped competitions as well as programs from many of the Bowls. The series may be accessed at http://tcm.computerhistory.org/computerbowl.html .

This series contains promotional material created by the Museum in Maynard, Marlborough, Boston, and Mountain View between 1975 and 2001, with the bulk of the material being from the Museum in Boston. Types of material include press releases/kits, store catalogs with TCM designed merchandise and other computer related ephemera, posters, invitations, exhibition guides, brochures, and pamphlets for the Museum. The series may be accessed at http://tcm.computerhistory.org/marketing.html .

This series contains a timeline of 300+ major computers built between 1942 and 1996 that were represented in the TCM collection in some fashion. This may have been a computer or a part of a computer in the permanent collection, a computer or a part of a computer on loan from another institution, a lecture or presentation by the machine’s creator(s), or other related material such as a photograph or document. How the computer was represented in the collection is not noted in the timeline. The timeline is not an official TCM record, but rather was built by Bell in 2015 as a useful reference. This series may be accessed at http://tcm.computerhistory.org/ComputerTimeline/TCM_Computer_Timeline4.htm .

This series contains administrative records from TCM, including the records of Gwen and Gordon Bell, the Museum’s founders and first “keepers” of the Museum, as well as the papers of longtime Board Member Gardner Hendrie. Types of material include solicitation letters, collection development policy documents, lists of artifacts, classification/taxonomy documents, board and executive staff meeting minutes, trip reports, correspondence, exhibit planning, and goals. The files in this series are restricted to onsite use. Folder titles may be accessed at http://tcm.computerhistory.org/files.html . Please contact research@computerhistory.org to request access to restricted files.

This series contains material from the critical period when the Museum transitioned from a volunteer organization in 1972 to a professionally staffed and funded non-profit institution in 1982. Types of material include memoranda, lists of artifacts, goals, financial information, and trip reports. This series may be accessed at http://tcm.computerhistory.org/decmuseum.html .