On 14 December last year I had the chance to participate for the course mainframe technology to a field trip to the IBM museum in Sindelfingen. 
is special is that the museum is not a public museum, but rather internally for IBM. The museum is maintained by former IBM employees, or probably just a few volunteers. In the museum there is still much to do well, because there are any Lot of old computer around. This museum is a special feature, because without the commitment of the volunteers there would be no museum. The mentality of the IBM looks to the future and would have the old PC, and laptop machines disposed of. Before we were able to see all the old rarities we got from one of the guides a historical presentation about IBM. The company history dates back to around 1890 when Hermann Holerith on the World Fair in Paris, presented his Holerithmaschinen.
from his company in 1911 was the predecessor of IBM - IBM 2011 is therefore 100 years old. Then came the lead. We have looked above all the old machines. First was there is a Holerithmaschine over 100 years old and still works. It is probably the only machine that still works. Their task was the sort of punch cards. There was then able to print a lot of sorting and counting machines for punch card machines to the.
In computer history, it was then transferred to the tubes computers, then to the transistors. We have seen monolithic memory, old tape drive memory and huge disk space.
It was really interesting - to touch history. More impressions from the museum:
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