Description of the attraction
The idea of founding the Cyber Museum appeared in 1995. The museum held its first major exhibition in 2007 at the Murom Museum of History and Art. The exposition was then visited by 1000 people. The official date of the museum foundation is September 2, 2008.
Today the names BK-0010, Agat, UKNTs, Krista, DVK or Spectrum do not mean anything to the younger generation. But practically until the mid-1990s in our country they worked on these computers, and only from the mid-90s did IBM computers finally replace them. The Cyber Museum gives its visitors an opportunity to get acquainted with the history of the computer industry and find out how it all began …
In March 2012, the Cyber Museum moved to a new premises, where today it presents about five hundred exhibits that tell about the history of domestic and world computing technology - from its first uncertain steps to its rapid development in our time.
The collection of the museum, its founder, Viktor Kupriyanov, has been collecting for about fifteen years. Here you can see everything: from "Agats", computers, and "Spectrum" to laptops, from punch cards to flash drives, from calculators the size of a large book to miniature modern copies. It also presents cell phones that have already become "rarity", which appeared in the 90s of the last century - huge "Nokia", "Siemens", the first digital cameras.
Most of the exhibits are in working order, so the guests of the museum can remember their youth by playing old games "tanks" or "Tetris" or admire the first version of Windows or MS-DOS on a black-and-white screen. Particularly advanced ones may even try to remember how to write the simplest programs in BASIC or Fortran.
The greatest value in the museum are: a collection of computers, a collection of calculators, a collection of reading devices and information storage. The museum collection is constantly growing.
Schoolchildren, students of technical schools and universities can always find here useful specialized literature for themselves, which cannot be found even in libraries.
The exposition is divided into several topics: form factors of motherboards, evolution of processors, evolution of calculators, evolution of video cards, evolution of storage media, input devices, evolution of HDD disks, IBM-compatible and non-compatible computers, laptop form factors, peripherals.
There are also stands from the personal collection: cameras of the 20th century, cell phones of the late 20th century.
