The Normill Personal Computer Museum

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I also have a pretty good library of old electronic/computer hobbyist magazines: Byte -- starting with December 1975 /Issue #4. dr. dobb's journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia ("Running Light without Overbyte") --starting with February 1977 /Vol.2, No.2) Kilobaud -- starting with January 1977 /Issue #1. Interface Age. Personal Computing -- only have a few of these. Radio-Electronics -- including the issue (July 1974 /Vol.45, No. 7), which featured the Mark-8 computer. Popular Electronics -- including the issue (January 1975 /Vol.7, No.1), which launched the Altair 8800. Poly Paks (a mail-order surplus-electronics company in Lynn, Mass.) catalogs -- back to 1978 /#227.

Donations to my museum are almost always welcome. Right now, I'm searching for the following in particular: an Altair or IMSAI. an ASR-33 terminal, with punched tape reader. a Commodore KIM-1. a Commodore Pet. disk drive(s) for the Apple IIe. Thanks to the following people for their advice and generous donations: Grzegorz Kryszczuk, for the Sol-20 and hard drive. Ryan Murphy, for a complete set of Lisa office software. Richard Spandlich, for the Lisa computer itself. Brad and Darlene Jenkins, for the IBM "XT 286". Ursula Huws, for the Sanyo MPC-550 and the Olivetti laptop. Rob Erlich, for the "AT Plus" and the Iris 2400. Jo Christian Oterhals, for the correct Lisa price-tag. Steev Morgan and Cathy Orfald for a Mac 512K. International Academy of Design, for the Mac Quadra 650. Greg Tripp, for the C-64 external disk drive, two TI-99/4A's, two Compaq's, a Mac 512K, the Corvus external hard drive, and much more. Brian Richmond, for rescuing the Kaypro II from a neighbor's garbage can. Tom Lanny and his daughter for the link to "A Timeline of How Computers Changed History" It turns out there are lots of other people with the same obsession. For starters, check out: A Timeline of How Computers Changed History (Starting with George Stibitz's 1937 "Model K" adder) First Computermuseum of Nova Scotia (Vintage Toy Robots and Video Games as well) Stefan's Old Computer Stuff (Beautiful layout; impressive collection) Bob's Computer Museum (with links to many more such sites) Von Neumann Machines (Pictures and tales of very early systems) Vintage Computer Festival (Monster vintage computer site) Tales of the Sphere (The FIRST fully integrated personal computer?) House for Retired and Aged Computers (Good reference for DEC, Data General, Sun, etc. computers.)

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