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BIMO 2007, in Delémont (Switzerland), April 25th till 28th, 2007
The sixth partial exhibition of the museum took place during "BIMO 2007", office, automation and computer fair, in Delémont. To learn more about the BIMO association, click here..
14 keyboards from around the world as well as 6 home-made ones were on display.
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14th Collector's Fair, in Tavannes (Switzerland), April 22th till 23rd 2006
The fifth partial exhibition of the museum took place during the "14th Collector's Fair", in Tavannes (Switzerland). Computissimo was the special guest 2006.
Several TV video games of the 70's, mechanical calculators, Sinclair, old telephones and acoustic modem were on display. Three other display cabinets presented 14 keyboards of 14 countries.
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BIMO 2005, in Delémont (Switzerland), March 9th till 12th, 2005
The fourth partial exhibition of the museum took place during "BIMO 2005", office, automation and computer fair, in Delémont. To learn more about the BIMO association, click here..
From the XT to the Pentium 4, 8 PC generations were running simultaneously the same program. In a glimpse at the 8 monitors, the 3'800 visitors could compare the impressive computation power increase. The motherboards and microprocessors of these 8 PC were also presented. One display cabinet was dedicated to the magnetic core memorie moduls. Several TV video games of the 70's, mechanical calculators, Sinclair, old telephones and acoustic modem were on display. Many live demonstrations were done to explain to the visitors the principles of mechanical calculus. Three other display cabinets presented 14 keyboards of 14 countries.
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Special thanks to our partners for their precious help :
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| Association BIMO | Meubles Hadorn | Jinfo S.A. | Egger TV | Loterie Romande |
BIMO 2003, in Delémont (Switzerland), March 12th till 15th, 2003
The third partial exhibition of the museum took place during "BIMO 2003", office, automation and computer fair, in Delémont. To learn more about the BIMO association, click here..
From the 8086 at 8MHz till the Pentium 4 at 2.4GHz, 8 PC generations were running simultaneously the same program. This impressive computation power increase fascinated many of the 3400 visitors ! The microprocessors evolution, from the 4004 (0.06 MIPS and 2300 transistors) till the P4 (3500 MIPS and 42'000'000 transistors) emphasized this progress as well. Many live demonstrations were done to explain to the visitors the principles of mechanical calculus. Several TV video games of the 70's were presented for the first time. Five other display cabinets exposed more than 30 micro-computers from the 70s till the 80s.
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BIMO 2001, in Delémont, March 14th till 17th, 2001
The second partial exhibit of the museum took place during "BIMO 2001", office automation and computer fair, in Delémont (Switzerland), in March 2001. To learn more about the BIMO association, click here .
More than 3000 visitors discovered through 11 display cabinets the progress of processors, storage medium (disk, tape, card, memories), and of the first micro-computers. One display cabinet presented some calculation dinosaurs (abacus, calculation table, arithmographe and mechanical calculators, including the famous Curta). The website could be visited on a stand alone touch screen terminal.
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ESTER, in Chaux-de-Fonds, February 18th till 19th, 2000
The first partial exhibit of the museum took place during the inauguration of the new technical school, ESTER, in Chaux-de-Fonds, in February 2000.
The theme presented was " The development of computer science ". The visitors discovered through 16 display cabinets the progress of processors, storage medium (disk, tape, card, memories),laptops and of the first micro-computers.
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Click here to download the trailer of
the exhibit (RealPlayer format, 740k),
seen on the Swiss Channel 
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on February 14th, 2000.
Click here
to download free of charge 
Newspaper articles
Here are some articles and pictures published in local newspapers :
| Biel
/ Bienne July 12-13th, 2000 |
Quotidien
Jurassien March 15th, 2001 |
Quotidien
Jurassien March 17th, 2001 |
Journal
du Jura January 26th, 2002 |
La
Gazette January 30th, 2002 |
Coopération November 20th, 2002 |
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| Quotidien
Jurassien March 14th, 2003 |
Journal
du Jura April 20th, 2006 |
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The museum website will be periodically updated with pictures of the exhibits, newspaper articles and announcement of the next events.
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