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Text by Richard L. Gaw To peruse the five-room contents of the Kennett Classic Computer Museum – a vintage computing gallery in Kennett Square filled with mostly donated items -- is to immerse one’s self in an incredible story that has impacted the lives of nearly every human being on Earth over the last 70 years. Painstakingly categorized in chronological order, the Museum provides a broad sweep of the advent of the computer from its rudimentary beginnings in the 1940s to the mid-1990s. From shelf to shelf and room to room, the Kennett Classic Computer Museum unfolds in such a way that illustrates the evolution of the computer, in much the same the way a gallery acknowledges the life’s work of one artist. Here though, it’s much more than a collection of 8-bit processors, controller chips, papertape readers and vintage Ataris, Commodores, Altairs and Apple Macintoshes. Complimented by a catalog of documentation, back-catalog computer publications, photographs and inperson and online tours, the Museum provides a firm imprint of how the Mid-Atlantic Region has played an instrumental role in transforming the size, look and purpose of computers over the past several decades. Continued on Page 47
Photos by Jie Deng
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