Patrimoine Belfortain industrie informatique

This Museum initiated by former employees of Bull Belfort gathers one of the three richest patrimony of computer science in France with Paris and Angers. You will quickly find the basics of computer science but treated with the punched card and its AN7 code. Mechanography machines from the 1930s-1960s still in operation will transport you into the complexity of information processing in those years. On the other hand, you will find all the applications of today's computer science, the basics still exist, but the applications have greatly evolved. Then you will be able to understand the whole of the technological evolutions of seizure and impression of the years 1960 to 1992 with the mutation towards the Magnetography. This museum also contains numerous archives on the functioning of the Bull company in Belfort, photos, social activities, inter-company activities, sports, etc. Visit of about 2 hours with demonstration and comments. Museum free of charge, permanence on Wednesday mornings from 9:00 to 12:00, or by appointment.