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July 23, 2021

Exciting news!

Currently, our collection is stored in multiple storage facilities in two cities, which makes sorting, logistics, and just about everything, very complicated! We are excited to be moving the collection to a new location that we have just leased. This will allow us to finally have the entire collection in one location, and will allow us to get much of our surplus items back in the hands of the community. Our goal is is preserve “one of everything”. During the general course of acquiring items we do need for the […]

June 17, 2021

Rescue: TI-99/4A Items

We recently rescued a whole car load of TI-99/4A items from a former Texas Instruments employee. We’re excited, and can’t wait to dig through this lot in depth!

May 29, 2021

Texas Instruments TI-74 BASICALC

Released in 1985, to replace the Texas Instruments CC-40, The TI-74 BASICALC is a programmable calculator featuring the BASIC programming language. Features: TMS70C46 CPU31 Character 5×7 LCD32+4 KB ROM8 KB RAMRAM/ROM Expansion PortHEXBUS Port80 Characters per line (31 visible)Powered by 4x AAA Batteries

March 2, 2021

66 Items Archived in February 2021.

Was a pretty productive month starting off 2021. This month, we archived 66 items. Digital DECstation – MS-DOS v3.30.01Digital ER-PC4XQ-AA-001 DECstation MS-DOS 03.30.01 and GW-BASICCommodore Amiga 600 UK Flyer (CBM 074)Apple IIgs System Fan Installation Instructions (030-1323)Digital EK-VS200-OM-001 VAXstation I Owner’s ManualBasic Apple BASIC, 4th PrintingSpinRite II v1.1IBM PS/1 Printer Driver for Microsoft Works (1196616)3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card Installation v2.1 (74-1879-001/83-1150-001)3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card Installation v2.6 (74-20441-000/83-1233-000)Masterclips – The Art of BusinessWindows for Workgroups v3.1 Upgrade for Windows 3.0 Users (1992-10-01)MS-DOS v6.0 Plus Enhanced ToolsRockwell […]

January 27, 2021

TRS-80 Model III, and DEC Items!

A recent gift to our collection. A TRS-80 Modell III, Printer, and quite a bit of software! Also gifted to us, a bunch of DEC TK-50 tapes, some VAX 2000 Manuals, and a couple of DEC VAX RD54 Disk Drives. We’ll be sorting through all of this, posting more pictures, and getting items archived soon!

January 16, 2021

Building an Apple II Newsroom

By: Joshua Coleman “This project came to fruition after collective tinkering sessions with my Apple II and various communications technologies that I use to interface the Apple II with the modern web. It’s pretty straightforward and I can imply (or just imagine) that this kind of set up was likely used as the earliest newsroom technology when the communications networks were strictly between institutions like communications between the AP and, say, the Washington Post.” Read the article here, or watch the video!

January 10, 2021

NASHUA DISC PACK 4473

We’ve spent the weekend going through some of the backlog of items that have come into our warehouse over the last few years. Found this NASHUA DISC PACK 4473 that was sent to us. Appears to have been used in a display previously.

January 8, 2021

The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing

“While modern, ever more efficient computers are selling better than they have in years, vintage computers — impractical old devices in need of repairs and out-of-production parts — are also in demand on sites like eBay. Collectors also flock to message boards, subreddits and Discord servers to buy, sell and trade parts.” Click here for source article

January 6, 2021

Assembly language, arcade games, and YouTube: The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer • The Register

“Everyone remembers their first time. It might be Commodore-flavoured, or carry a whiff of Sinclair about it. For former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, it was a TRS-80 in a 1979 Radio Shack.” Source: Assembly language, arcade games, and YouTube: The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer • The Register

January 1, 2021

DIY 8-Bit Computer Knows All the Tricks

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