VIRTUAL ROOM / 1980

Computer classroom

Computers · floppy disks · printers

COMPUTER

An archive for studying contemporary art

An interpretive module devoted to the museum’s documentary continuity since 1986. The installation can explain what an institutional archive preserves, but should not reproduce documents or access details absent from the evidence.

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COMPUTER

IBM PC 5150: A Platform and Its Compatibles

Displaying the 5150 in a computer classroom makes it possible to explain that the personal-computer market existed before 1981 and that the later adoption of its architecture by other manufacturers helped consolidate the compatible ecosystem.

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