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{{Short description|Museum in Boulder Creek, California}}
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[[File:Bruce Damer.jpg|thumb|Bruce Damer, cofounder and curator of DigiBarn, poses with an early Macintosh signed by [[Steve Wozniak]] during [[Macworld Expo]] 2009.]]

The '''DigiBarn Computer Museum''', or simply '''DigiBarn''', is a computer history museum in [[Boulder Creek, California]], United States. The museum is housed in a 90-year-old barn constructed from old-growth [[Sequoia sempervirens|Redwood]] in the [[Santa Cruz Mountains]], which is adjacent to [[Silicon Valley]].  It was co-founded by Bruce Damer<ref>[http://www.digibarn.com/about.html DigiBarn Computer Museum: About Us or Why are We Doing This?<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and Allan Lundell on May 7, 2001.<ref>[http://www.digibarn.com/friends/allan-lundell/index.htm DigiBarn Friends: Allan Lundell<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

The primary focus of the museum's collection is on the birth and evolution of personal, [[interactive computing]], starting with the [[LINC]] (1962), considered by some to be the first true personal computer, and leading on up through the [[Homebrew Computer Club|homebrew]] [[microcomputer revolution]] of the 1970s, the propagation of personal computing to homes and businesses in the 1980s and the spread of networked computing in the 1990s. The Digibarn does have a few large machines on display such as a [[Cray-1]] [[supercomputer]]. One notable point is that a large number of the Digibarn artifacts are available to visitors in a hands-on fashion, allowing them to [[booting|boot up]], load software and interact with the machines.

The Digibarn collection has mainly been donated by individuals and companies in nearby [[Silicon Valley]] and around the world. The Digibarn has a major focus on the legacy of [[Xerox]] and the birth of the [[graphical user interface]] with a large collection of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] products, although other historic computer systems are featured, including the [[Atari 400]], [[Osborne 1]], [[Kaypro|Kaypro II]] and the [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM 5150]] ([[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com/A-trip-down-computer-memory-lane/2100-1042_3-6203311.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906101144/http://www.news.com/A-trip-down-computer-memory-lane/2100-1042_3-6203311.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-09-06|title=A trip down computer memory lane
|publisher=[[news.com]]|date=2007-08-18}}</ref>

As of December 2021, most of the collection is on a long-term loan at the [[System Source Computer Museum]].<ref name="Digibarn 2022">{{cite web |url=https://www.digibarn.com/ |title=Home |author=Digibarn Computer Museum |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302153113/https://www.digibarn.com/ |archivedate=2022-03-02 |accessdate=2022-03-13 }}</ref>

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== External links ==
* [http://www.digibarn.com/ DigiBarn Computer Museum website]

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[[Category:Computer museums in California]]
[[Category:Museums in Santa Cruz County, California]]
[[Category:Museums established in 2001]]
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