Somewhere to donate "historic" computers?

[Mellman]

At work i've been going through our old server rooms, and finding some amazingly old hardware, we're talking computer from 20+ years ago. The one thing that caught my eye the most would be an old Compaq1 luggable(laptop nowadays for you youngsters). Wow, what am amazing piece of machinery, 128KB of RAM, DUAL 5.25" floppy's for storage, 9" monochrome screen, all weighing in around 28 lbs!!!

in any case...i have no use for this (too big for a paperweight) and I have enough junk at my house. Isn't there some sort of historic society that takes these things and keeps a little history on our computer. It was made in november of 1982, with its configured price of $3600. And i read somewhere that it was the first IBM compatible machine, when compaq bought the hacked IBM BIOS so that they could run IBM software on their luggable.

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SO COOL!

 

[hompsar]

yea, sure, my house :-D that is where you can donate it to ;-)

 

[Czar]

hehe, I got a huge and heavy alpha server from work and a few other odd and old things

so yeah.. my house is fine if you pay for shipping cost

 

[AxeMurderer]

Computer Museum You can donate at the link I gave.

 

[Mellman]

great! thanks for the link axe, if they dont want it i'll gladly give it to anyone who wants it...but i wont pay shipping, you want it you pick it up or pay shipping (its gonna be ~30lbs)

 

[Tostada]

20+ years ago? They had computers back then?

Then again, I guess I'm pretty old... I got my Commodore 64 for my 8th birthday in 1983.

 

[Bleep]

Me and my buddy boutht a univac from the goverment many years ago. I wish I still had it. The tubes in it are now worth a fortune.

Bleep

 

[bluemax]

I owned one of those exact Complaque luggables! Green mono CGA screen but it was VERY good output! Very legible! Had to use their card though - TERRIBLY slow video performance! (SNOW!!)

But I was lucky - mine had the RAM upgrade to the full 640k! Twin full-height 360k floppy drives.

Got me through the winter when I worked at a ski resort. Barely! It was so slow, playing a complicated MIDI file would be too much to handle!!

 

[McMadman]

I've seen one of those (or similar) before, isn't that the one that has an orange screen?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: McMadman
I've seen one of those (or similar) before, isn't that the one that has an orange screen?

The monitor we had (have?) at my house for the 286 would let us switch between white, green, and amber.