“The last two years I had to sell an apartment to finance the museum. I can not. Unfortunately I can no longer. The state does not care, companies do not care. And in seventy-two years I can no longer bear it. I had a heart attack a month ago because of this misfortune. And so we decided to close the exhibition hall; The museum will continue to move. “

Who sends WhatsApp audio is exhausted Carlos Chiodin. Together with his partner, Alicia Murcio, he created twelve years ago Computer Museum Buenos Aires ranks second in the world in the number of displays (48,000) with computers and devices of all eras. After decades of importing and classifying equipment to create this wonderful catalog, they decided Transform this passion into calculations in 2010 at the ICATEC Foundation, which manages the museum. The idea is to offer accessible space so that new generations who are running a Windows computer, using an iPhone or playing a PlayStation today have the opportunity to find out who the first computer was or who was in charge. The success of Apple in the early years under the leadership of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

“If we are talking about relatively small parts, among the most emblematic equipment and presented in the samples of the Museum of Informatics is the IBM PC 5150, from 1981 or Apple Lisa,” Chiodin told LA NACION a few years ago. “Despite the limited space, we also have monsters like IBM 360, IBM 370 and 390 with video games like Pong of the Oddyssey and models from the first Atari console,” he says. აქვს It also has Many national production teams, Such as Fate, DreanCommodore, Talent / Telematics, Texas Instruments, Skydata, Czerweny, Micro Systems, Syncorp and IBM and many more.

“One day an 80-year-old Japanese man came, stood in front of the camera in the room and started crying. I approached, he did not speak Spanish, I did not speak Japanese, so we spoke mixed English, recalls Alicia Murcio in a recent interview with Télam. “He cried and told me that for many years he was responsible for controlling the robot that made the lattice of this machine.”

The exhibition hall closes

This was announced by the museum these days He will close his room at the end of the month At exhibitions Marcelo T. de Alvear 738 PB. Beyond the Economy, Chiodin explains, the travel museum pass is linked to the fact that the Buenos Aires government has not renewed their authority to expose their relics to the public, a problem that has been delayed since the pandemic began.

The city government responds that the museum is accompanied by the necessary procedures for authorization, but equally “the museum is” put to use “, which means that it is authorized to function.”

Creating your own space for the Buenos Aires Computer Museum was an achievement that took years; In 2013, it had its first official headquarters on Tukuman Street; Three years later, they moved to their current headquarters, where they can be seen on devices ranging from classic computers (Apple, IBM, Commodore), versions of which are almost non-existent in the rest of the world.

In 2021, the museum released a copy of the Clementina supercomputer (first in the country) for sale to keep it running. The latest exhibition was held in June last year and was created virtually, in response to a mobility restriction imposed by the pandemic: SpySpace, an exhibition about technologies used for espionage over the years. The online exhibition demonstrates how individuals, corporations, and nations have conquered, transformed, and applied this knowledge through surveillance, deception, manipulation, hacking, encryption, cunning, intelligence reporting, and special operations.