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Museum Displays Personal Computer, Video Game Collection
Syd Bolton has about 3,000 pieces of software on display at his Personal Computer Museum in Brantford, Ontario.
Credit: CBC News
The small town of Brantford, Ontario, located about an hour west of Toronto, has been been gaining a reputation for the past five years, in nerd circles at least. Brantford is home to the Personal Computer Museum, a veritable treasure trove of machinery and software from the past 30 years.
Housed in a white barn-like building that used to serve as a bus maintenance depot, the museum opened in 2005 thanks to the work of Syd Bolton, a former software developer and dabbler in video game design. Bolton bought and restored the building to display his collection of aging machines.
The museum receives hardware and software donations from all over Canada. Bolton says he has more than 1,000 computers, although he only has enough room to show off about 100. Even more impressive is his collection of video games. Bolton has almost every game created for the PlayStation 2, all 1,400 of them, and is just six shy of the entire 874-title collection for the original Xbox. All told, he has more than 10,000 video games.
From CBC News
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