Computer Museum of America To Host Saturday Tours

ROSWELL, GA -- Starting this month, Roswell-based Computer Museum of America will host a Summer Saturdays at the Museum series.

The series will kick off Saturday, June 11 at its facility at Kings Market Center, which is located at 1425 Market Boulevard Suite 200.

Visitors to the museum, which is rarely open to the public, will tour one-of-a-kind exhibits culled from one of the top vintage computer collections in the world.

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Featured items include one of the oldest personal computers, the Kenbak-1, as well as a 6,000-square-foot Apple exhibit with rare artifacts such as an original Lisa, Mac classics, the history of Steve Jobs and much more.

You can also see the special addition in the main space to celebrate Apple’s 40th anniversary. The 7,600-square-foot PC exhibit features crowns of personal computing such as the TRS-80 and Commodore PET intertwined with the stories and exhibits of early video games and the big names such as IBM, Microsoft and Gates.

The museum's hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and college students, $5 for children age 5 to 17 and free for kids under 5.

The facility will be open the second and fourth Saturday of each month and offers ample free parking. You can learn more about the facility by visiting its website.

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