It was created in cooperation with the Rogowski Institute for Electrical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University.
The extensive collection, which was created in 1965 with the support of the state North Rhine-Westphalia, the German Research Foundation and the Friends of Aachen University, was one of the earliest of its kind in Germany.
The computer museum was established in 1987 at the RWTH extension site in Melaten and closed at the end of 2009.
Some of the exhibits: The building that housed the computer museum had to be demolished in 2010 as part of the repurposing of the Melaten campus [de].
[4] The remaining devices were taken to a warehouse on the premises of Dortmund train station (Tillmann collection).