We welcome donations of equipment, software and documentation, but we must ask that you get in touch before bringing anything along to the museum!
When we accept artifacts into the collection, it will be under two possible categories:
- Items that are rare, unique or require special attention and care will be accessioned to our special collection and not normally be usable by the public.
- Items that are not rare or where we hold a number of similar items, will be accessioned to the handling collection, and those items will be available to be used by visitors to the museum or for spares to keep existing systems operational.
Contact our accessions manager here
We are often asked what particular items we are in search of.
This is a partial list (in date order), but we will update this regularly.
- Computer hardware pre 1965
- ICT/ICL 1900 series mainframe esp. 1904S or 2903
- Anything DEC that isn't a VAX, PDP8, or a PDP11