Yes, I'm collecting old computers! The progress in the computer industry is so lightning fast that computers will very quick become museum items. I try to collect some milestones and classical computers. For example the first PC, the first portable, the first true laptop and so on. I want all my computers to be in original shape, unmodified and in working condition. It is also fine if original OS, manuals and software are included.

As the museum is located in Sweden I have a special focus on Swedish computers.

New Arrival in the Museum...

In October 1988, the Compaq SLT/286 debuted. The first computer to use VGA (640-by-480-resolution) graphics, it revolutionized portable displays. The SLT/286 weighed 14 pounds and had a 20MB hard drive, a 12MHz 80C286 processor, a new low-power chip that is among the faster 80286 microprocessors, and it is certainly capable of handling most applications. And it has a detachable keyboard, another first among laptops. Operating system supplied at the time was MS/DOS 2.11.

This computer kindly donated by Dan Kjellarsson, thanks!

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On my wish list: 

• Apple Lisa,  Lisa2 from 1983-84 or first original Mac from 1984
• Luxor ABC-16, ABC 9000 (Swedish)
• Jet 80 (Swedish)
• TRS80 I
• IBM PCjr
• Commodore PET 2001or Commodore SX-64 portable!
• First Compaq I Portable
• Other classic personal computers
• Home computers like Sinclair, Acorn Atom,  Amstrad, Atari, Amiga, BBC, Spectravideo, Oric, Dragon, Sinclair ZX81, Microbee...
• Well, if you have an Altair 8800 then I promise to take good care of it...

If you feel like you have something lying around that would fit in to my collection, please mail me to see if you can become a donator to my museum! You can be like the folks at Web Hosting Search who have generously covered my shared web hosting service for PC-Museum.com Please remember that Rune's PC-Museum is located in Sweden!

Personal computers come in many shapes and forms whether it's a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet PC or a handheld PC they can all help you do many things ranging from playing games like online slots to word processing and working with speed sheets.

One way to celebrate the history of computing is by collecting them and letting other people see how far we have come. Isaac Newton: one wrote: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” putting that into context of computers the computers of today are only so good because of the ones that came before.

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