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| The PC-museum was opened in 1993. It was meant
to be a temporary exhibition called "The Birth of the Personal Computer". It was
however so well received that the decision was made to make the PC-museum permanent. Now
we also have Internet Café and the modern computers of the World of Computers. The first collection of Personal Computers comes from the software company Hogia. Hogia bought its first computer at a Computer Fair in 1978. The computer was Imsai 8080 with a Microterm Screen and a Micropolis Diskette unit with two 5"-drives. |
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The computer had 64 K and with the printer Diablo the
whole system cost about SEK 60.000 which was then equivalent to a one year salary. The computer was bought from Hobby Data in Malmö, Sweden, the first computer shop in Europe. Bert-Inge Hogsved of Hogia, then made an accounting program for his wife Åse´s accountancy firm. This was the first program of the growing software company Hogia. |
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| Later on many began to see the possibilities in the computer business and started to import personal computers. Many personal computers were also manufactured in Sweden. Those who planned to sell the computers needed software. They would approach Hogia and ask them to adapt the software to run on their computer. Hogia then told them that they would need a computer of that type to be able to make deliveries and user support because the first Personal Computers were not at all compatible. Thus hundreds of different computers were given to Hogia, and these have then been kept and now make up the foundation of the museum. | ||||||||||
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At the PC-museum in Stenungsund, Sweden, you can see many more. We have close to 300 different computers old as well as new ones. |
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