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Re: Retro Computer Museum

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Post by bnycum »

oldnetguy wrote: post #47

Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA USA https://computerhistory.org Kennett Classic in Kennett Square, PA USA https://www.kennettclassic.com Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA USA https://www.mact.io System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, MD USA https://museum.syssrc.com/ Vintage Computer Federation Museum at Infoage in Wall NJ USA https://vcfed.org/museum-info/

National Videogame Museum in Frisco, TX https://nvmusa.org/

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Post by callumprentice »

I grew up in Leicester and then later moved to Silicon Valley. I had several old computers in a cupboard at my parents’ home for years - Acorn Atom, Atari 800, Video Genie, Elan Enterprise - and was never able to muster enough energy to schlep them out to San Jose to the museum there. I’d only I’d known there was somewhere I could’ve donated them to so close by.

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Post by teh_klev »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #52

I love Retro from the UK. As a German, it much better reflects my childhood in the 80s with CPCs, Sinclairs, Archimedes' and Atari STs - computers that to me feel forgotten by US Retroism.

And also not forgetting Acorns, Dragons, Orics and a bunch of other almost cottage industry manufacturers that you could go into John Menzies, Debenhams or WH Smiths and buy straight from store stock. I think we had quite a rich selection of machines to choose from back then.

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Post by kator »

While this looks nice, I really loved https://livingcomputers.org/ when it was alive. Sadly it's in stasis now, I was lucky enough to visit while it was still open and I ran around to all these old machines punching in code and showing my wife all the old machines I've worked on in my 40yr+ career.

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Post by benjamta »

timthorn wrote: post #45
gokhan wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bournemouth Worchester Southwark ...

...Happisburgh

Ha! Norfolk's a treasure trove of interesting place names. Wymondham also trips outsiders up.

I was here for almost 20 years before I learnt that Heighham is pronounced as just "Ham".

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Post by btgeekboy »

oldnetguy wrote: post #47

Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA USA https://computerhistory.org Kennett Classic in Kennett Square, PA USA https://www.kennettclassic.com Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA USA https://www.mact.io System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, MD USA https://museum.syssrc.com/ Vintage Computer Federation Museum at Infoage in Wall NJ USA https://vcfed.org/museum-info/

Hopefully someday we can re-add Living Computers in Seattle, WA USA to the list. https://www.livingcomputers.org

Paul Allen's death, and then the COVID pandemic, effectively put the museum in stasis. At least two of Allen's former museum-ish places are getting to reopen soon - both the downtown Cinerama and the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor museum in Mukilteo have been sold by his estate and are reopening this year. Hopefully Living Computers is next.

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Post by simmons »

oldnetguy wrote: post #47

Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA USA https://computerhistory.org Kennett Classic in Kennett Square, PA USA https://www.kennettclassic.com Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA USA https://www.mact.io System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, MD USA https://museum.syssrc.com/ Vintage Computer Federation Museum at Infoage in Wall NJ USA https://vcfed.org/museum-info/

Media Archaeology Lab in Boulder, CO USA https://www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
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