Collections - CHM Menu Explore Overview Stories Timelines Collections Playlists Blogs Publications Connect Overview Events K-12 Students & Educators Families & Community Groups Colleges & Universities Business & Government Leaders Volunteers Visit Overview Plan Your Visit Exhibits Public Tours & Group Reservations Customize It Venue About Overview This Is CHM Centers Programs News Leadership Join & Give Overview Ways to Give Donor Recognition Institutional Partnerships Buy Tickets Donate Hours & Admission Subscribe Upcoming Events for: Or search the collection catalog EXPLORE COLLECTIONS Share CHM stewards the world’s leading collection and archive chronicling the history and impact of computing and technological innovation on the human experience. From machines to source code, lab notebooks to business plans, our collecting scope is expansive with unique perspectives into the online world, entrepreneurship, and software. collection Finding aids FEATURED COLLECTIONS Revolution The First 2000 Years of Computing Discover our permanent collection on exhibit in Revolution The First 2000 Years of Computing. Explore over 1,100 objects while hearing firsthand accounts from the innovators who set the computer revolution in motion. Revolution The First 2000 Years of Computing Selling the Computer Revolution Explore the visual language of innovative technologies and leading companies in this collection of marketing brochures and advertisements from 1948 to 1988. Selling the Computer Revolution Fairchild Patent Notebooks The Fairchild patent and laboratory notebooks date from 1957 to 1980. They include the work of legends like Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce that revolutionized microelectronics and drove the explosive growth of Silicon Valley. Fairchild Patent Notebooks National Venture Capital Association NVCA and Venture Forward Oral Histories Study the firsthand accounts of venture capital pioneers and luminaries in the NVCA-Venture Forward Oral History Collection, a rich set of transcripts that have been compiled over the past 15 years by the NVCA. NVCA-Venture Forward Oral History Collection Oral Histories CHM’s oral history program records and preserves the firsthand recollections of computing pioneers from around the world. With over a thousand in-depth interviews and demonstrations, CHM’s oral history collection is one of the most comprehensive on the subjects of computing, technological innovation, web, entrepreneurship, and networking. Oral histories Research Archives and Collections Access CHM stimulates learning and facilitates insights through collections-based research and access to primary source material. Learn about using our collection, including on-site research. Research and access ACQUISITIONS New artifacts are accepted into the collection after careful consideration by our curatorial and archival teams. Learn more about donating artifacts to CHM. Donate an artifact Special Projects Projects Computer Restorations Computer restorations further CHM’s research and collection efforts by fostering understanding of historical hardware and software. Visitors can also experience some of these historical machines in their original operating condition. Projects Computer Communications In the years 1988−1994, venture capitalist and historian James L. Pelkey traveled around the world, conducting a total of 81 interviews as research for his hypertext book, A History of Computer Communications: 1968-1988. Projects History of FORTRAN The FORTRAN History Project preserves source code, design documents, and other materials around the original IBM 704 FORTRAN/FORTRAN II compiler. This project is led by CHM's Software Preservation Group. Explore More Special Interest Groups Software History Center Exponential Center Internet History Program Share ×