When I started collecting PCs, people thought I was crazy,” says Yves Bolognini – the engineer who gave his name to the Bolo Museum, established in 2002 in the computer science building at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Since the early 1990s, the young man has piled boxes full of computer equipment in his parents’ apartment and then his student bedroom. At the start of the new millennium, he realized that these computers would become parts of a technological heritage to be rediscovered.

On brown and orange carpeting, snaking between the windows, ridiculously small screens and outdated keyboards line the path taken by this high technology, recalling the time when these machines had not yet infiltrated every corner of our lives…

From electronics to computing