Computers -- Vintage

Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is fortunate to have a small collection of (donated) vintage computer stuff.

 

Vintage Computers at PPM

Picture	Item	Manufacturer	Model Number	Owner
	computer system and floppy disks	Atari Inc.	ATARI800	PPM
	computer display	AMDEK	VIDEO-300A	PPM
	3-button computer mouse	Sun microsystems	Crossbow	PPM
	FONE FLASHER 2	Radio Shack	43-178	PPM

Donations Received

Wish List

Pikes Peak Makerspace is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so we can provide a receipt for any donations you make.

Hand-Curated Links

Links to member-recommended external sites:

The Mother of All Demos

A landmark (1968) demonstration of windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor.

By computer pioneer Doug Engelbart.

Links to vintage laptop sites:

OLPC - One Laptop Per Child

Links to vintage calculator sites:

The Museum of HP Calculators

Vintage Calculators Web Museum

Links to vintage space hardware:

Space Shuttle Main Engine Controller (pdf)

Space Shuttle's upgraded IBM AP-101S computer

CuriousMarc — restorations of space hardware

Hidden Figures and Human Computers — National Air and Space Museum

Links to other external sites:

The Story of the Tandy 100 — on YouTube

TRS-80 Model 100 | Walt Mossberg's gadget museum — on YouTube

Building 20 "The Magical Incubator" — on Wikipedia

centre for computing history — Computers

The "Buxton Collection" — interesting, useful, or important

The Madness of Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2022

Picture Gallery

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  BYTE magazine cover
  SEPTEMBER 1980
  (63) Influential People
  in Personal Computing

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  Radio Shack
  TRS-80
  computer system

For Additional Help

Use the PPM Slack channel #computing

List of all PPM Slack channels

Note that we have a Slack channel (#job-board) for members to post, discuss, or accept job opportunities either within PPM or from the community.

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Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is dedicated to supporting our maker community in their creative processes by providing shared space, shared tools, materials, software and a knowledge base to turn their ideas into reality.