b'This remarkable collection is located in the To instance just a few such items: an annotated The principal challenges with this collection areSchool of Computer Science and Statistics.copy of Ada Lovelaces 1842 translation of Luigi to provide suitable storage and display space soIts title is in recognition of Professor John Gabriel Menabreas account of Charles Babbages as to preserve it, and to make it available to allByrne (1933-2016) who founded and led the Analytical Engine; the photo-documentary of the with an interest in the history and developmentDepartment of Computer Science during its first arrival on 16th June, 1962, of the IBM 1620, of computing technology. Ideally this collectionforty years of rapid development, and who has Trinity Colleges first programmable computer; should be associated with other College scientificbeen called both a genuine Renaissance Man, the spiral slide-rule invented circa 1878 by collections such as Engineering, Physics,with a huge range of interests, and the father of George Fuller of Queens University, Belfast; the Chemistry, Botany, and Geology, and managedcomputing in Ireland, responsible, directly or Teradata DBC/1012 Database Machine from circa by the College Library as the TCD Scienceindirectly, for most of the extraordinary success 1983; an Intel iPSC Hypercube from circa 1984.Museum to provide a sustainable income, as doof the Irish software sector.the Book of Kells and the Long Room. With further donations there are now about threeOver his entire life he gathered an impressive and thousand such items in the Collection, see the The curators are Drs Brian Coghlan and invaluable collection of early computing books online catalog at: Dan Mc Carthy who welcome enquiries andand documents, slide-rules, software, https://www.scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/.visitors; to arrange a visit please contactinstruments, and mechanical and electronic coghlan@cs.tcd.ie or mccarthy@cs.tcd.iecomputing machines, which form the basis forthis collection. 27'