It was an amazing discovery for me! I had no idea I would enjoy a trip to the Computer History Museum so much. This museum is located in Mountain View and very easy accessible from 101 freeway. Two hours went unbelievably quickly and there was still so much to look at, to read about, to try out. I think that this museum should be discovered by everybody who lives in our area or visits Silicon Valley. You will find out how this all started from regular mechanical calculators to first models of calculating machines that were created by Charles Babbage. Then this journey will take you all the way to first computers and computer games and at the end - to the most modern computer models.

Our library resources include lots of interesting books on this subject as well. I would like to recommend several of them:

• Memories That Shaped an Industry: Decisions Leading to IBM System/360 by Emerson W. Pugh
• The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer by Georges Ifrah
• The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer by Georges Ifrah
• Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray