# Unearthing the History of the Computer Revolution > A vast collection of computing history stored in a university basement is finally being cataloged for future generations. - Title: Unearthing the History of the Computer Revolution — Shortify - Summary: A vast collection of computing history stored in a university basement is finally being cataloged for future generations. The Computer Museum of America's… - Keywords: computing history, archiving, museums, technology, startups, Unearthing, History, Computer, Revolution, Computer Museum - Source: Computer Museum — https://computer-museum.org/wp - Read time: 1 min - Topics: computing history, archiving, museums, technology, startups ## Stored in a library basement For 21 years, the Computer Museum of America collection has sat safely protected beneath San Diego State University's Love Library. > For the last 21 years, the collection of the former Computer Museum of America / San Diego Computer Museum has sat in the basement of the Love Library ## A new spark of funding A generous grant in summer 2025 enabled organizers to begin indexing the massive artifact collection and raising public awareness. > we have begun the process of indexing the collection, and have begun doing some additional fundraising and marketing ## Beyond standard hardware The archive spans far more than machines, holding hobbyist newsletters, vintage magazines, early software collections, books, and manuals. > Not just computers and other hardware, but magazines, hobbyist newsletters, software collections, books, manuals and more ## Seventy years of transformation Computer technology changed daily human existence more over seven decades than in the preceding thousands of years combined. > Over the past 70 years, that has changed in ways our great-grandparents never would have imagined. ## A resource for future scholars Researchers in sociology, anthropology, engineering, and history will soon use the repository to study how the Information Age began. > researchers in fields as divergent as sociology and engineering, anthropology and history will be able to draw on this collection ## Key takeaway The Computer Museum of America's vast repository is being cataloged to help researchers study how computing fundamentally reshaped modern life.