Who founded the Computer History Museum in Boston?

The Computer Museum was a Boston, Massachusetts museum that opened in 1979 and operated in two different locations until 1999. It was once referred to as TCM and today is sometimes called the Boston Computer Museum.

Gordon and Gwen Bell, with the assistance Digital Equipment Corporation, founded the Digital Computer Museum in a former RCA building in September 1979. The director appointed to lead the museum was Oliver Strimple, who moved from the Science Museum in London. In spring 1982, the Museum received non-profit charitable foundation status from the Internal Revenue Service.

In Fall 1983, The Computer Museum, which had dropped "Digital" from its title, decided to relocate to Museum Wharf in downtown Boston, sharing space with the Children's Museum in a renovated wool warehouse. On November 13, 1984, when the Museum officially opened to the public at its new location, the initial exhibits included the Whirlwind vacuum tube computer, the SAGE computer room and the story of Cray computers. Also given prominent display was Gordon Bell's 20-year timeline of major inventions, software developments and benchmark applications. Visitors could sit at computers and ask questions of ELIZA, watch robots or purchase cartoonist Vernon Grant's Computer Cartoon postcards at the Museum's gift shop