Amazing Private Computer Collection

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There is a guy in Australia that owns the country’s largest private computer museum and he runs it all from his own home. Hit the link to see more than 50 pictures of his collection. I snagged a few to get you started:

His collection is vast, from a 1920s Julius Totalisator, the first UNIX PDP-7, a classic DEC PDP-8, the original IBM PC, Apple’s Lisa, MITS Altair 8800, numerous punch cards and over 6000 computer reference books. And more.
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Very nice. I built an Altair myself from a Heathkit in 1975... a long long time ago. ;)
 
Ahh so he's the guy who buys up all the unwanted ebay junk with no reseve at 1 cent :)
 
God that map for Adventure would have helped, I remember playing that on the PDP-11
 
He may be able to recycle some of those machines and get a lttle bit of gold out of the deal.
 
me and him are very much not alike.

i threw out all my old cdrom's just because they were cream color and not newer looking white or black.

i threw out 4 crt monitors even when i needed one just because they weren't lcd's.

i threw away 5 floppy drives because they were floppy drives.

with this computer stuff being a hobby of mine, instead of hoarding a bunch of old hardware like most do i tend to get rid of everything thats obsolete, and i dont hesitate very long to do so. things like isa cards, parallel port printers, even regular cd-only rom drives i get rid of. u just see this technology still in its baby-stage, and theres just not much reason to hold onto anything right now. unless you were going to make a museum i guess....
 
Wow...

Quite amazing that is where a lot of it started and where we are now.
 
LoL - love reading these posts.
I'm an old, old, hacker. Been at it since the 70's. So much of this I have used, coded on, operated, managed, etc. over the years. The first "computer" I saw was an ADM-3A terminal connected through a 300bps acoustic coupler to a PDP-11/15. I walked into that room as a young teenager, and that was all she wrote. I knew right then I was headed for a career in computers. Pretty cool. I actually have the old Fortran source code listing for Adventure. I wrote to Don Woods back in the late 70's when he was at Stanford. I kept pestering him until he sent the source to me... It's a nice collectors item now.

Ahhhh the memories.
 
I used to be exactly like this guy...unless it broke, I kept it.

I've limited myself to more recent items now, since I finally got that 300lb IBM mini-computer off to recycling.

The 8" floppies made good ninja stars when you glued needles into the corners.
 
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