About the STARTUP Gallery
STARTUP is the first museum exhibition dedicated to the microcomputer - the little machine that revolutionized the way we live, work and play. The gallery features one-of-a-kind artifacts, video and interactive displays, including “Rise of the Machines” - an immersive multimedia theatre experience.
In the STARTUP Gallery
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Icons

The ubiquitous signposts of personal computing.
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A Little Company Called Microsoft

Microsoft wasn’t always huge. In the early days it was a small group of friends living together and working all hours.
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What do You Think?

Do you have “hacker spirit,” the urge to create technology just for the fun of it?

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Open to the public 11.18.06

Today's Artifact
Commodore 64

Commodore 64

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Did You Know?
During World War II, British mathematician Alan Turing designed the Bombe, an electromechanical computing device used to decrypt the German Enigma code.
STARTUP: Albuquerque and the Personal Computer Revolution was conceived and generously funded
by Paul G. Allen and Jo Allen Patton. Additional support for the gallery was provided by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation.
Opening events and programs were funded by presenting sponsor Intel and sponsor Bank of America.