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Over time the lab collection has expanded with donations and the occasional purchase. But in May with class looming the next semester, I had to turn my attention to maintenance. Old computers don’t always stay working ever after being restored to full functionality. During a visit of the IEEE Computer Society student chapter it became…

We’ve added the quirky and little-loved IBM PCjr to the lab’s collection of functional computer systems. Here’s what we had to say about this little-loved machine in A New History of Modern Computing (pages 222-223). When I wrote those words I’d never actually seen one in person, still less had the opportunity to probe the…

A retired business school professor passed on a well preserved Gateway 2000 486 system in an original configuration, which would have been a $3,000 computer when it was sold exactly 30 years ago in September 1993 (there are date stickers on all the components, making this easy to pin down). That’s more than $6,300 in…