You can make a difference by donating today to Colorado Computer Museum - what better day than Giving Tuesday to kick off our annual fundraiser!
We collect, conserve, and exhibit all kinds of information processing technology, preserve the knowledge of it, illuminate its effect on society, and foster understanding of the underlying science. Illuminating the effect of technology on society entails exhibiting computer systems as well as items from other fields, showing how they worked before and after the "digital convergence." Our tagline is "A Hands-On History of Information Technology," because we value interactivity and authentic experiences with vintage technology.
Thanks to donors just like you, we've kept busy moving our mission forward:
- Showed the computer history exhibit at our Johnstown/Berthoud warehouse to people from as far away as Paris, France, including a visit from over 40 members of a local engineering society chapter!
- Received numerous historical items for the collection, including a couple of collections of Digital Equipment Corp ephemera and systems we can use to run OpenVMS and RT-11, a DEC Rainbow, some nice vintage Macintosh items, a Toshiba 3200 plasma panel laptop, some vintage A/V and professional analog video equipment, an HP 9100B desktop computer , and many vintage books, magazines, software items, and ephemera, just to name a few.
- Continued to organize the collection after last year's emergency storage move, and work on an administrative backlog.
- Received property tax exemption for both of our warehouse properties! This is a big deal, since in hopeful anticipation of this, we've been paying property taxes over and above budget from matching funds and savings.
Your gifts today enable us to continue to progress in all these areas. We need your help as much as ever, as expenses continue to climb and we have many ongoing projects, such as:
- Lighting and other projects to complete on the buildings
- Upgrades to the exhibit space
- Develop additional exhibits
- Finish setting up our media lab for preserving software and data
- Outfit our restoration shop area
- Plus routine expenses for utilities and so on
Our long-term goal is to use the present facilities to show our small exhibit to the public while we prepare more items to be on display at a future large-scale exhibit space.
We appreciate any help you can give by donating, passing this opportunity along to others you know, or posting it on your favorite social media sites.
Come see us at our "vintage" web site: http://www.trailingedge.org
Join our announcements email list at https://groups.google.com/g/ccm-announcements
If you'd like to interact with other supporters of Colorado Computer Museum, you can join the Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cocomputermuseumfriends
Thank you!
Colorado Computer Museum is a 501(c)(3) public charity, so donations are tax-deductible under Section 170 of the United States Internal Revenue Code.
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