OU History of Science Collections

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh, the first computer with a mouse and a windows-based user interface. All our modern computers are its descendants.

The History of Science Collections has on display an early 1984 Macintosh donated by Tim Long, and a late 1984 model from Kennard and Kay Bork. There are about 40 working computers from the 1970s-1990s in the collection.

Visit the lobby of the History of Science Department to see a display of books by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930):

• A Study in Scarlet (1888)
• The Sign of Four (1890)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)