Is there any museum of early modern computing technology in Taiwan?

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I'm not sure you'll find much. Taiwan started by manufacturing low-end electronic radios and components for that kind of application. Many (probably most) of the electronics books and manuals available in Taiwan were bootlegged copies with poor bindings, sold in tiny shops.

From memory, the IC industry started by a government-funded initiative (Electronic Research and Service Organization) that made so-so copies of Western parts that then was spun off into maybe half a dozen semiconductor companies such as UMC which were partially non-government funded.

One of those spin-offs (I believe from the early 1980s) is the semiconductor foundry TSMC, which has a "Museum of Innovation" in Hsinchu. But I would not expect any museums to cover the somewhat seedy original days of copying, and rather to concentrate on the modern era of impressive innovations and vast investments.

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