The mission of the Computer History Museum is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. As such, the Museum plays a unique role in the history of the computing revolution and its worldwide impact on the human experience. The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history. We are home to one of the largest international collections of computing artifacts in the world, encompassing computer hardware, ephemera, photographs, moving images, documents and software.
The Computer History Museum's digital collection at California Revealed consists of moving images and audio recordings from the 1970s and 1980s. The majority of the collection consists of audio recordings of sessions at the West Coast Computer Faire, an annual computer industry conference and exposition. The collection also includes film and videotape recordings of computer science innovations made by institutions such as Stanford University and IBM.