Early computers weighed tonnes and filled entire rooms, literally.
In just a few decades they shrunk dramatically in size and increased massively in power. Today we can hold in our hands devices that are way more powerful than Dunedin’s first proper computer - an ICT 1301 installed at the Cadbury factory in 1963. That computer, which we have nicknamed ‘Brucie’ after the person who installed, maintained, and later preserved the machine – takes centre stage in our display.
Check out some of the early calculating devices that were used before computers. See ‘Brucie’ and some of his mates. Compare and contrast these monsters with the subsequent generations of smaller machines that are also on display.
Listen to the experts who knew these machines so well talk about the ins and outs of these devices that revolutionised our lives.
After you have experienced Monster to Miniature visit On the Move and travel through the ages of transport history in Dunedin and Otago.
