Computer Sheds, Fridaythorpe
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| The Computer Sheds | |
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Yorkshire | |
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| Type: | Museum |
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| Grid reference: | SE89266067 |
| Location: | 54°2’3"N, -0°38’19"W |
| Village: | Fridaythorpe |
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The Computer Sheds are a museum of computing, housed in sheds in the countryside near Fridaythorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The museum houses the Jim Austin Computer Collection, of over 1,500 computers and many related items.
Covering the history of the swift development of computers; it includes a huge IBM mainframe weighing 10 tons, ten Cray supercomputers, and a computer which ran for 30 years, and such items as a one of the first computer mice, calculators and much else besides. The RadioShed contains a collection of radios and valves.
The collection was started in about 1986.