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Computer Museum of America has built one of the world's largest collections of historic
computers through a combination of corporate underwriting and the generous donations of
individuals across the country. Nearly all of the computers in their collection were
originally used in homes or small businesses. And without the support of corporate
sponsors, would not have the financial resources to preserve or display this collection. Due to overwhelming support, the Computer Museum of America
can no longer accept donations of common computer-related equipment, such as modern
Windows-based computers, VGA monitors or printers. We deeply regret this, but our storage
space has become severely overcrowded.
We are still very interested in acquiring rare
historic machines, generally (but not always) computers from or before the early 1980s.
Here is a partial list of the computer related items they are looking for.
Computer Museum of America Wish
List:
- Kenback-I computer
- Original PONG arcade game
- Original PONG home video game
- Any electronic arcade consoles; especially Space
Invaders, Missile Command, Donkey Kong, Defender and other early hits
- Original Odyssey home video game
- Fairchild Channel F home video game
- Mattel Intellivision home video game
- Mattell Vectrex home video game
- Atari 5200 home video game
- Atari 7800 home video game
- Atari Jaguar 64-bit home video game
- Atari Lynx handheld video game
- TurboGrafx16 home video game
- Xerox Alto
- Xerox PARC
- Apple I
- Apple Lisa I
- Apple Macintosh I clear case
- Early models of DEC PDPs
- IBM 1401 and early IBM business machines
- Atari Transputer (British prototype)
- Atari 260ST (German)
- Atari TT
- Atari Falcon030
- Commodore KIM
- Commodore Plus4
- Mechanical adding machines
- Computer magazines from the late 1970s
- History papers on computers and computing
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- And if you have any question about the
historic significance of your computer, or to see if the Museum would be interested in
receiving your donated equipment, contact Curator David Weil at (619) 465-8226.
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