The Musée Bolo or Swiss Museum of Computer Science, Digital Culture and Video Games is a private museum dedicated to the
digital revolution
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. Its exhibition space is located on the site of the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne
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,
Vaud
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,
Switzerland
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. Its main storage area is located near
Lausanne Train Station.
Collections
Within the museum is a collection of old computers dating from the 1960s to the 1990s in danger of disappearance. This is named Bolo's Computer Museum (BCM), and opened in June 2002. Besides old computers, this collection includes other items associated with old computers, such as
peripheral devices
A peripheral device, or simply peripheral, is an auxiliary hardware device that a computer uses to transfer information externally. A peripheral is a hardware component that is accessible to and controlled by a computer but is not a core compo ...
,
hardware documentation and related books and magazines.
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, ''24 Heures''
On 10 November 2011, BCM opened its permanent exhibit, titled "Programmed disappearance", which includes the rarest objects of its collection. Its theme is the various ways in which computers, through trends such as miniaturization or cloud computing
Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...
, tend to blend into the background of everyday life and become both pervasive and invisible.
See also
* Lausanne campus
* List of museums in Switzerland
References
External links
Official website Grappe de PC Linux pour le Calcul à Haute Performance
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Computer museums
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Museums in Lausanne
Science museums in Switzerland