New Additions To The Museum Collection
02/06/2008 A box of 3M brand 8" floppy diskettes (new), copies of Hewlett-Packard Journal from June 1972, 1981, 1985, and 1988 issues. From a donor in CA.
02/05/2005 A Televideo TS 802H w/keyboard and manuals, TS 802H Ver 2.0 CBIOS on floppy, CP/M Version 2.2, various books and software, Signalman Mark XII modem. From donor Janice E. Mach in CA.
01/28/2008 Various pictures from 1982 of hp products, Technical data sheet, hp employee newsletter. From donor in CA.
09/15/2007 A hand punch used with McBee Keysort data cards. From donor Mark G. Leonard (CA).
08/31/2007 Ohio Scientific OSI C2-OEM with 8-inch floppy disc drives, several boxes of disc, original operating software and manuals, 1978 Hazeltine terminal, 1982 Anadex dot matrix printer. Donor Ms. Kathy Chesko (CA)
08/16/2007 Two complete Xyvision publishing systems models 55 & 65, manuals, software, and many more items are with it. Donor Ms. Laurie Arras (MD).
06/03/2007 A Symbolics 3640 Lisp Computer with a model OP36-DISP Display from a donor here in Texas.
05/23/2007 A TOSHIBA T1000XE laptop and various Commodore items from a donor in New York.
05/14/2007 A Cardamation 600 Card Reader from a donor in ID.
05/02/2007 A OSBORNE Portable computer with CA Computer Accessories Portable Video Monitor from a donor in CA.
03/31/2007 Complete Convergent Technologies WorkSlate system and a 16 piece Honeywell Pewter (by HUDSON) collection of it's famous computer component animals used in computer ads from 1964 to 1978. From a donor here in Houston.
03/20/2007 A green iMAC, Power Computing 150, & a Power Computing 180 system. From a donor here in Houston.
03/07/2007 Complete TRS-80 MicroColor Computer collection with all the manuals and various third party books. From donors in NM and NJ.
02/14/2007 EPROM burner for KIM-1 with manual. From a donor in OR.
01/04/07 Various unit record equipment and parts. IBM 83 Sorter, 4-IBM key punch machines, 2-IBM 552 Alphabetic Interpreters, many manuals, and other items. From a donor in GA.
01/04/2007 Two Sun SPARE Station 2's. From a donor in GA.
11/20/2006 A hp 16800A Bar code reader built from spare parts by one of the design team members with various documents.
10/14/2006 A complete EPSON PX8 with manuals. From donor Frank Perkins (FL).
09/10/06 SDS910 mainframe and related peripherals, plus many other items to be listed from a donor in Kansas.
09/09/06 Various workstations and PC based systems, parts, test equipment donor in MO. More detail list coming.
09/08/06 Complete working SEL810A system with spare parts and service equipment. More detail list coming.
08/16/06 A decSystem10 manual, flowcharting template, and digital training kit. From a donor in OH.
08/08/2006 A Apple LISA 2 Owner's manual and other documentation.
06/19/06 Received a fully wired 407 Control Panel used in the IBM 407 Accounting Machine (1949-1960's) from a donor in CA. Pictures and more detail to follow.
06/07/06 Received a Tandy 102 Portable computer with adapter, carrying case and 4 manuals from a TX donor.
04/25/06-05/18/06 Received 5 cases of manuals from donor in CA., covering mainly IBM (mainframe) and Cray computers. Will have detailed listing later.
05/10/06 Received hp desktop VISUALIZE computer, hp 2340A, hp6000 SCSI SE, hp rack mount storage enclosure, software, and various cables from a TX donor. A more detailed list later with photos.
04/20/06 Received a RCA Cable modem used in the prototype production run from a IN. donor.
03/25/2006 Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1 with drives, software, manuals and other items. A TANDY 102 portable computer with portable floppy drive and other items. Over 200 items donated to the museum today for a Houston donor. More details later.
03/02/2006 Shipments of about 17 yards (51 feet) of old IBM mainframe related manuals, dating from 1960's to the 1990's, and about 8 feet of IBM source code microfiche starting arriving by UPS from donor in VA.
10/09/2005 A rental truck loaded with cases of books and many other items arrived from Boulder CO, will list items at a later date.
08/29/2005 Received four boxes of computer magazines dating from the 1970's to 1980's from a donor in OR. Included are complete sets of Creative Computing, On Computing, Popular Computing, SCCS Interface, Interface Age, and Byte.
08/12/2005 Received a signed copy of J. E. Thornton's "Design of a Computer The Control Data 6600" in the mail from a donor in CO.
06/18/2005 Picked up over 70 items dated from the 1950's to 1970's in Austin Texas. There were items from a System/360 model 25, System/34, and UNIVAC computers. Have to make a third trip soon to finish getting all the items donated.
05/04/2005 A total of 73+ items were picked up from a local donor and included the following. Commodore PET 64 model 4064 (not the Educational 64), 3-PET 4032's, PET 2001-8 the first model with the built-in cassette unit, 2-PET 2001 Series 32B, Pet model 4010 Voice Response unit, printers, dual disk drives, cassette drives, spare keyboards, chips, laptops, and many other items.
02/14/2005 Delivered from CO a LCD-286 Portable computer and a Commodore SX-64 both in working order.
12/04/2004 Picked up 151 different items from a previous donor mostly Apple stuff with some PC items. A boxed (original box) Apple 7100/80 and a Umax tower (Apple clone) were the bigger items. - Some of the other items were boxes of new/old unopened software, tape back-up systems, many different cables, various power cords, cassette back-up tapes, books, and manuals.
11/06/2004 IBM System/34 5340, IBM 5211-2 High Speed Printer, MAI/IBM 548 Punch card Interpreter with one programming board, 3-IBM 5251 Terminals, 2-IBM 5251 Keyboards, 44-Manuals, 11-8" Diskettes with Diagnostic on them, Datacard cabinet with several card decks inside (compilers, programs, etc.) - Boy this CPU unit is one big monster, it took two of us 30 minutes using a come-along to pull it up the ramp into the truck and this is not counting the time it took to move it from his living room (on carpet) to the kitchen door (we had to remove the kitchen door). I forgot to take pictures before we loaded the truck on Saturday but got some Sunday morning of the items in the truck and will put them on the website later. Sorry to say the 548 Interpreter was damaged during the drive back from Austin but I hope with help we can get it back in shape and running. Any old IBM repair guys out there that can fix this unit or have technical manuals for it, please contact us at info@houstoncomputermuseum.org.
10/12/2004 Mits Altair 8800 Rev. A - This unit is still in kit form (almost) and needs to be completed, the following boards came with it. Mits 8800 1k Static Memory Board Rev. 0; Polymorphic Video card Rev. 00; and Mits CPU BD Rev. 0. We also got one Mits 8800 M/BD Rev. 1 with it. Pictures to follow.
10/11/2004 IBM 029 Keypunch machine - Shipped from Colorado (Eco-Cycle donated it) using Eagle Global Logistics (in-kind donation) for shipping more later as it's unpacked. Pictures to follow.
The Houston Computer Museum is a fully independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for public benefit. Your donation is a tax-deductible contribution.
Federal ID: #43-1950958
