Museo degli Strumenti per il Calcolo

This guide to the Museo degli Strumenti per il Calcolo in Pisa starts with an odd fact about the Vecchi Macelli building itself, a slaughterhouse from the late 1800s built with vaulted ceilings and wide doors for driving cattle through, and follows what became of it instead. It traces the University of Pisa's decision, decades later, to fill those rooms with computing history, including a machine built here in 1961. Listen for how a building meant for one trade ended up devoted entirely to another.