Musée Bolo

The Musée Bolo is an exhibition at the School of Computer And Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Romandy, Switzerland. Each exhibit has a different theme such as original microcomputers, video game consoles, and computers organized by country. Posters next to each display case explain the exhibits. Currently it houses around fifty computers.[1] It contains the private collection of the hardware engineer Yves Bolognini.[2]

Musée Bolo
Location within Switzerland
Established2002 (2002)
LocationEPFL - Bâtiment Inf, Station 14, 1015 Lausanne
Coordinates46.51870°N 6.56377°E / 46.51870; 6.56377
Collection sizeComputer equipment
Public transit accessLausanne Metro
Websitewww.museebolo.ch
Commodore 128D on display at the Musée Bolo, EPFL, Lausanne.

Collections

Within the museum is a collection of old computers dating from the 1960s to the 1990s in danger of disappearance. This is named Bolo’s Computer Museum, (BCM) and opened in June 2002. Besides old computers, this collection includes other items associated with old computers, such as peripheral devices, hardware documentation and related books and magazines.[3] Among them is the Contraves Cora anti-aircraft fire control computer.[4]

On 10 November 2011, BMC opened its permanent exhibit, titled "Programmed disappearance", which includes the rarest objects of its collection. Its theme is the various ways in which computers, through trends such as miniaturisation or cloud computing, tend to blend into the background of everyday life and become both pervasive and invisible.[3]

Examples of computers on display
  • Apple Lisa, with an Apple ProFile external hard disk sitting atop it.
  • The Sharp PC-1500 with printer/plotter and cassette interface in travel case.
  • GBS Newbrain AD with a French keyboard.
  • Ohio Scientific Challenger 2P, with optional double disk unit.

In 2017, Logitech put a number of rare or iconic items on display

Examples of pieces provided by Logitech
  • Logitech 3D mouse (1990)
  • Logitech Magellan
  • Logitech Metaphor, the first wireless mouse (1984)
  • Logitech Trackman Portable

See also

References
  1. "Musée Bolo". Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  2. "Musée Bolo". Office Region du Leman. Archived from the original on January 13, 2012. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  3. "Programmed disappearance ; the Bolo Museum on the case". École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  4. Un ordinateur historique retrouvé dans les caves de l’EPFL Archived 2014-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, 24 Heures

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