Musée Bolo

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Commodore 128D on display at the Musée Bolo, EPFL, Lausanne.

The Musée Bolo is an exhibition at the School of Computer And Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne. Each exhibit has a different theme such as original microcomputers, video game consoles, and computers organized by country. Posters next to each display case explain the exhibits. Currently it houses around fifty computers.[1] It contains the private collection of the hardware engineer Yves Bolognini.[2]

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, hardware documentation and related books and magazines.[3]

BCM's new collection, opened November 10, 2011, is a permanent one called "Programmed disappearance" and includes the rarest objects of its collection.[3]

  • Apple Lisa, with an Apple ProFile external hard disk sitting atop it. Note the dual 5.25-inch "Twiggy" floppy drives.

  • The Sharp PC-1500 with printer/plotter and cassette interface in travel case.

  • GBS Newbrain AD with a French keyboard.

  • Ohio Scientific Challenger 2P, with optional double disk unit.

References

  1. ↑ "Musée Bolo". Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved March 24, 2012. 
  2. ↑ "Musée Bolo". Office Region du Leman. Retrieved March 24, 2012. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Programmed disappearance ; the Bolo Museum on the case". École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Retrieved March 24, 2012. 

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