Robert Definitely you should contact the Computer History Museum; they are some what unique in that they collect old documents and software relating to computers in addition, of course, to hardware. At one point they went to Germany, I think, to pick up and ship to the US a whole bunch of old gear.
Go to https://computerhistory.org/acquisitions/ for information on how to make a donation It is best to make the offer online using their form at https://airtable.com/appPBw0VORVpnaJbZ/shrgwufDwr5wNVMal It really helps them if you can provide as much detail as possible on the "stuff," an item by item inventory if possible, and an estimate of the total size for shipping purposes. Their process is the offer will be reviewed by their acquisitions committee and if some of your offer fits their missing needs they will accept all or some of your offer. It does take them four weeks or so to get back to you - maybe sooner if really interested Regards, Tom -----Original Message----- From: Leonard D Woren <ibm-main...@ldworen.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 9:38 PM Subject: Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available Maybe contact the Computer History Museum https://computerhistory.org/ . They probably have the resources to ship anything they're interested in. Their collection includes IBM hardware that predates any of us having seen a digital computer. It's been quite a while since I was there, but they were working on fixing up an IBM drum storage device which I think was the size of beer keg and held something like 550 bytes, no typo, or maybe it was a few kbytes. /Leonard Robert Prins wrote on 1/23/2024 7:57 AM: > Hi all, > > My father worked for IBM in the Netherlands for more than 30 years, > starting as a CE in the late 1950'ies. Last year he was diagnosed with > Alzheimer, and over the past few months my siblings and me have been > emptying his apartment and storage room, and we've come across a > sizeable quantity of IBM "stuff", from manuals for the 650 to old > square cm "integrated circuits" and even a magnetic core memory card. > My siblings weren't in the least interested in any of it, so I took > it, and although it's nice to look at, our house is already full enough as it > is, so... > > If anyone thinks they can offer a good home to these things, and I > will, hopefully soon, put pictures of everything that surfaces on my > website, feel free to contact me off this list and we can take it from > there. You'll most definitely be paying for shipping (from Lithuania), > and based on what I'm going to find out on fleabay, I might ask for a bit > more. > > Robert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
