Fun and profit with obsolete computers

From Apple's Lisa to the Kenbak-1, vintage gear has a growing appeal to collectors in the market for "character" and investments.

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C64 Programmer's Library

I used to do a lot of writing for various Commodore magazines, managed news areas on QuantumLink, PC-Link, America Online, Delphi and others. I had so many requests for information from my past articles and programs from my older Commodore-64 Programmers Library that I put a copy online with a small token fee to access the files to help cover my internet access & hosting costs. It's amazing how much interest there has been in this old material.... for anyone interested, see http://home.comcast.net/~c64proglib/ for sample articles and more info..... Robert Baker

[sydric]

Personal Computer Museum - Canada

This article hits home with exactly what I started doing when I was 16 - collecting old computers. Now, 20 years later I have an actual computer museum you can visit and interact with all the old machines. We have 50 machines you can play with and hundreds more in static storage or just in plain storage. Magazines, books, software and more! For more information check out http://www.pcmuseum.ca

[markgirc]

DigiBarn & Computer History Museum 1/06 Visit & Donations

In January 2006 I brought some 33 cartons of computer magazines, manuals, and marketing materials dating from about 1975 to 1988 to northern California from my garage in Arizona and donated them to DigiBarn Computer Museum & the Computer History Museum. I had been an early employee of MicroAge in the mid-70's and "there" for the birth and nascent growth of the personal computer industry. Bruce Damer at DigiBarn was so engaging and personally invested in his historical collection that my visit with him was extraordinary and delightful for me, full of stories and ideas. He produced an audio interview and photo spread of my recollections of early personal computing that appears on his site at http://www.digibarn.com/collections/audio/digibarn-radio/mark-goldstein/ FYI.

Cheers!
Mark Goldstein/International Reseach Center
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