The Interim Computer Museum
Here is the July 2025 report! We are open 10-4pm Saturdays, Sundays & Mondays at 998 Industry Drive, Tukwila, WA 98188 to all members by appointment at https://icm.museum The building has been repainted and the tar/gravel roof has been resealed. Please note that we will be closed Saturday and Sunday August 2nd and 3rd as the parking lot will be resurfaced over the weekend. We will be open on Monday August 4th 10-4pm. For the latest on exhibits, preservation and restorations, please be sure to check out the BLOG at https://icm.museum/blog Upcoming Events: Aug 1st & 2nd Come see us at the Vintage Computer Festival West in the Computer History Museum, Mountainview California - https://vcfed.org We'll be displaying and demonstrating access to our 26 remote systems Sep 13th & 14th Come see us at the Vintage Computer Festival MW at the Schaumburg, IL convention center - https://vcfed.org We'll be displaying remote systems and status on the PDP-10 KI10 restoration. Thank you to Gary Solomon and Jim Mazurek for this! Oct 2nd: Join us at the Interim Computer Museum from 4:30pm to 8pm for a member preview of our NEW 1400 sqft mainframe and mini computer gallery. On display we'll have the PDP-7, PDP-12, PDP-10 KA10, KI10 and KL10, Thinking Machines CM2, IBM 1620 MK I, IBM 029 keypunch, IBM 082 card sorter, MissPiggy (PDP-11/70) various Teletypes, telegraphy and much more To attend, please RSVP now by booking at https://booking.sdf.org You can select the time you'd like to arrive and stay as long as you'd like. Oct 3rd & 4th: Interim Computer Festival Fall 2025 (registration is now OPEN) Two days of Vintage Computing Fun - https://sdf.org/icf We will be at the INTRASPACE events room, Old Rainier Brewery in SODO. Oct 17th-19th: Come see us at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo at the Oregon Convention Center. We're featuring early video games from the 1960s-1980s including Spacewar! Tennis 4 Two, Colossal Cave Adventure, CHEKMO-II CHESS, Vectrex, Atari TANK ][ and many others. Thanks to Rob Schmuck and Josh Dersch for helping with this! Nov 28th: Joint exhibit with https://zkm.de to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Thinking Machines: Connection Machine. The CM2 at ICM will be on display beginning in October and we will announce a specific time coordinated with ZKM, but it will be over the holiday weekend. Special thanks to Danny Hillis and the Amara foundation for supporting this! Teaser video by Tamiko Thiel: Thinking Machines: Connection Machine ================ July 2025 Report ================ New members: 23 for a total of 302 members Membership conversions: 0 New Sponsorships: 7 Cancellations: 0 Total New/Renewals: 58 for the month (up 62.86% from June) Attendance Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul YTD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- In person: 0 4 9 0 29 44 39 125 Volunteer Hours: 36 42 72 0 180 402 166 898 Remote logins: 1274 1837 2603 2125 2340 2850 2809 15838 Systems ON-Line --------------- 13 Real Hardware 2 Hybrid/Emulation 10 Simulated 26 Available Remote Systems ON-Line. Connect to these machines via 'ssh menu@tty.sdf.org' or https://connect.sdf.org Bootstrap members and above may request personal accounts, use of the guest accounts is encouraged. Thank you for your patience. Volunteer software and system administration opportunities are available! Expenses Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lease 3381.00 3381.00 3381.00 3381.00 3381.00 3381.00 3516.24 * Trash 80.50 80.50 80.50 80.50 80.50 80.50 96.60 * Internet 77.48 77.48 77.48 77.48 77.48 77.48 77.48 Gas 99.90 90.89 62.82 53.94 53.94 53.94 53.94 Electric 218.68 215.94 190.79 240.86 259.45 305.20 293.42 Supplies 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Insurance 291.32 291.32 0.00 291.32 0.00 124.25 124.25 Events 500.00 0.00 1150.00 0.00 0.00 500.00 0.00 ------- ------- ------- ------ ------ ------- ------- 4648.88 4137.13 4942.59 4125.10 3852.37 4522.37 4161.93 * reflects annual lease increase Revenue Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOTSTRAP 144.00 108.00 720.00 252.00 252.00 972.00 1188.00 JFCL 18.00 0.00 36.00 36.00 0.00 18.00 36.00 JRST 22.00 66.00 0.00 22.00 66.00 0.00 22.00 JSYS 252.00 648.00 180.00 360.00 720.00 252.00 576.00 EXEC 216.00 144.00 144.00 360.00 360.00 0.00 360.00 UUO 0.00 50.00 0.00 0.00 450.00 0.00 0.00 MONITOR 900.00 0.00 0.00 900.00 900.00 0.00 900.00 Donations 0.00 0.00 600.00 0.00 1300.00 3500.00 1590.28 ------- ------- ------- ------ ------ ------- ------- 1552.00 1416.00 1680.00 1930.00 4048.00 4742.00 4672.28 Monthly S/D -3096.88 -2721.13 -3262.59 -2195.10 195.63 219.63 510.35 Quarterly S/D -9080.60 -1779.84 * We continue to receive 100% matched donations from Google and Microsoft. Please check with your organization to see if they'll match your support. * July showed the third consecutive monthly surplus this year! Tax deductible donations can be made to: Interim Computer Museum, Inc. [ 501(c)3 33-1329617 ] PO BOX 17355 Seattle WA 98127 Membership and sponsorship by subscription: https://icm.museum/?join Zelle and Crypto are an option, please contact membership@sdf.org for details. Thank you everyone! |