Windows 95 was sold in specialty stores and arrived in a box containing eight floppy disks to be installed on the computer. With Windows 95, people began to store photographs and recordings and the computer is no longer an exclusive use of the office and enters the homes. A computer contractor who has been investigating the development of computers since 1961, José Carlos Valle, stays in a shed in Itapecirica da Serra, about 125,000 articles between computers, programs and digital pieces that he intends to turn into the computer museum. For this he is looking for partnership because his suggestions are very bold and covers a time travel that shows the development not only by computers, but also by video games. That is why it admits that it is too easy to classify the museum is too simple, “it will actually be an arena – tech,” he says.
José Carlos Valle decided to also preserve computers manufactured in Brazil in the market reserve phase, between 1984 and 1992, when the country banned the use of foreign technology for digital projects. The proposal was to form and develop Brazilian technology, specialized in computer-microelectronic assembly, hardware architectures, basic and support programming programs, among others. But there was not enough knowledge in the country to develop something competitive with the outside and today everything that was manufactured is absolutely nothing. “Even a typewriter has, chronologically, more technology than the national computers in Cobra, Cisco and Sharp, for sale at this stage, but still preservatives for historical research, as the idea of the museum covers previous information, education and knowledge,” says the digital researcher.
The computer museum for now is not open to the public, but the goal is to open it as soon as possible. Valle proposes that partnership extends from donating old machines of companies to financing based on the Cultural Incentiality Act. “Collecting electronic waste for us is important because some go to the museum’s collection and another part we sell and with these functions we help maintain the project.”