Learn
Virtual Exhibition
Take a virtual tour of the current exhibitions on display at the Paul Gray Personal Computing Museum housed in the Academic Computing Building of Claremont Graduate University.
Past Exhibitions
Check out the archive of our past exhibitions, such as “Covering PCs: Harry McCracken’s Cover Collection.”
Education
Access our curriculum for teaching the history of personal computing, designed to be adaptable and scalable across grade levels.
Events
Starring the Computer: The Cinematic Portrayal of Computers Over Time
Join Jan Pascale, Academy Award–winning set decorator; Steve Irwin, video playback supervisor for notable films such as “Pulp Fiction” and “Forrest Gump”; and Joshua Goode, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Humanities in Practice at Claremont Graduate University, for a thought-provoking conversation on how computers have been portrayed in Hollywood over the decades.
Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation
Dr. Peter Krapp discusses the crucial role simulation plays in the preservation of digital culture and what investigating its widespread use as a cultural technique can tell us about how we relate to our history and present in a world shaped by computing.
Digital Queers and Cyber Activism: The Early LGBTQ+ Internet
Dr. Alex Ketchum and editor Karen Wickre discuss early online LGBTQ+ activism and how activists adapted their work to a rapidly developing interconnected digital landscape and played a role in shaping Internet culture.
Ideas
VCF SoCal 2026
See a reflection on Vintage Computing Festival 2026 by our Assistant Director, Nancy Chen, where she shares highlights from the event and reflects on the role of both museums and vintage computing enthusiasts in preserving and sharing computer history.
VCF SoCal 2025
Find a recap of the 2025 Vintage Computing Festival, where we exhibited representations of computing on film using models from our collection that have appeared in iconic movies and TV shows.
Carmen Sandiego and Educational Computing with the Apple II
This collection spotlight focuses on the intertwined histories of the Apple II and educational gaming.