It's perhaps just as well I've been fated to move so often, else I'd've surely wound up with a full-on retrocomputing museum.. not so much the well-known stars, more the curiosities that don't see the same degree of stardom, like the Rockwell AIM-65, Exidy Sorceror, Sinclair MK-14, Ohio Scientific Superboard, and Cosmac ELF II.
@porsupah Oh I know what you mean, I had so many of the old beasts. I was going to donate a few things to the Living Computer Museum here, but they closed at the beginning if COVID, and their creator/patron saint died and they never reopened. Shame, it was a great place to while away a day.
@deadrose Aaah! Damn, that is unfortunate. I should make a point of visiting the CHM when I'm next back in home orbit.
(There's also quite a good one at Bletchley Park, or at least was - I recall there was some kind of falling out between them and Bletchley management, winding up with separate ticketing being required; hopefully that's as far as it went)
It always strikes me as a little odd, how items which were once so commonplace can, after just a few decades, become quite rare, or even unfindable, regardless of condition. But then, people only tend to have so much space.
@porsupah Yeah, the nicest thing about the LCM was that they made it as interactive as possible with the computers they had plenty of. It was nice to sit down at a clonky old keyboard and type "load *,8,1" once again. They also had access to the bigger machines for pros & researchers.
@deadrose Definitely! They were meant to be used, after all, not merely looked upon. (Reminded of that scene in the original Toy Story..)
Now, was that an original 2001, with that.. memorable keyboard? =:)