THE AMERICAN COMPUTER MUSEUM BY VALERIE HEMINGWAY George Keremedjiev
Barbara Keremedjiev
Stibitz (1997-2006) and E. O. Wilson Award (2006-onward) recipients who live in Boze- man: the other three are Klein Gilhousen (2002), David Quammen (2010) and David Ward, MSU biologist (2010). George and Barbara Keremedjiev, founders and overseers of the museum, are a valiant team who opened their private collection to the public in May 1990. The Stadium Drive is their third address. The museum is public, not private as is sometimes thought. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that depends entirely on patrons' contributions. It is not affiliated with the university or any other en- tity although it has a classroom where MSU seminars are held. The space is also available for suitable events.
The latest exhibition, which opened in January 2012, is called Steve and Steve. Unsurprisingly, these are Wozniak and Jobs. It is the most comprehensive exhibit of the Apple Company history on dis- play anywhere to date. There is an iconic photograph taken in 1975 of the pair in
Steve and Steve is the most
comprehensive exhibit of the Apple Company history on display anywhere to date.
Jobs' bedroom at his parent's home in Los Altos, California. It was there that they first assembled the Apple 1 computer. Next to it hangs a photo of the proverbial garage of the same house, where the 200 Apple1 com- puters were packaged for shipping in 1976. It was the "first low cost micro computer"
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