Opening of the Bob Doran Museum of Computing

Abstract

The Bob Doran Museum of Computing at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, was formally opened on 14 July, 2022. The late Professor Robert W. Doran (“Bob”) established his “Computing History Collection,” and its associated timeline display, at the beginning of this century, and continued to develop it until his untimely death in 2018. The museum now spans six levels of the stairwell in Building 303S on the University's City campus, available during weekday working hours. It mainly covers modern computing, starting in the late 1950s, with a focus on New Zealand. Apart from papers and books retained by the University, part of Bob's large collection of old documents has been donated to the library at MOTAT, Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology, forming the Robert W. Doran Collection. Papers from Bob's years working for the Amdahl Corporation in Sunnyvale, California, have been donated to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.