The Interim Computer Museum
Here is the September 2025 report! We are open 10-4pm Saturdays, Sundays & Mondays at 998/954 Industry Drive, Tukwila, WA 98188 to all members by appointment at https://icm.museum The calendar is also open 7 days a week as we're likely on site working and you are welcome to stop by. It is October, we're quite busy this first week with the Thinking Machines unveiling tomorrow, Thursday October 2nd from 4:30-8:30. All members and their guests are invited. Please use https://booking.sdf.org to set your arrival time, leave when you like. We'll have the CM-2 up and running, a Symbolics LISP Machine, the PDP-7, a few PDP-8 computers running and you may even get to see Bruce power on the PDP-10! We are looking for volunteers to help with events, system administration and museum activities. If you are interested, please get in touch. Special thanks to Charles Anthony, Bruce Sherry, Katie Schaffer and Rick Altherr for their volunteer hours! For the latest on past event summaries, exhibits, preservation and restorations, please be sure to check out the BLOG at https://icm.museum/blog Upcoming Events: Oct 2nd 4:30pm-8:30pm Thinking Machines CM2 unveiling at the museum! Book your arrival time at: https://booking.sdf.org Oct 4th & 5th Interim Computer Festival FALL 2025 - https://sdf.org/icf 10am-6pm Saturday and Sunday Exhibitor registration is OPEN Oct 17th - 19th Portland Retro Gaming Expo! We'll have 8 tables featuring exhibits from the Interim Computer Museum as well as a collection presented by our own Joe Decuir. https://www.retrogamingexpo.com for details ===================== September 2025 Report ===================== New members: 14 for a total of 338 members Membership conversions: 0 New Sponsorships: 7 Cancellations: 0 Total New/Renewals: 75 for the month (down 16.7% from August) Attendance Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep YTD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- In person: 0 4 9 0 29 44 39 79 41 245 Volunteer Hours: 36 42 72 0 180 402 166 342 180 1420 Remote logins: 1274 1837 2603 2125 2340 2850 2809 3445 2285 21568 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 Aug Sep ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lease 3381.00 3381.00 3381.00 3381.00 3381.00 3381.00 3516.24 3516.24 6222.48 * Trash 80.50 80.50 80.50 80.50 80.50 80.50 96.60 96.60 151.10 * Internet 77.48 77.48 77.48 77.48 77.48 77.48 77.48 87.48 87.48 Gas 99.90 90.89 62.82 53.94 53.94 53.94 53.94 53.94 53.94 Electric 218.68 215.94 190.79 240.86 259.45 305.20 293.42 307.44 313.65 Supplies 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Insurance 291.32 291.32 0.00 291.32 0.00 124.25 124.25 124.25 124.25 Events 500.00 0.00 1150.00 0.00 0.00 500.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 ------- ------- ------- ------ ------ ------- ------- ------- ------- 4648.88 4137.13 4942.59 4125.10 3852.37 4522.37 4161.93 4185.95 6952.90 * This includes the addition of the 954 "Large Systems" gallery. Revenue Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOTSTRAP 144.00 108.00 720.00 252.00 252.00 972.00 1188.00 2088.00 2160.00 * JFCL 18.00 0.00 36.00 36.00 0.00 18.00 36.00 0.00 18.00 JRST 22.00 66.00 0.00 22.00 66.00 0.00 22.00 66.00 0.00 JSYS 252.00 648.00 180.00 360.00 720.00 252.00 576.00 864.00 396.00 EXEC 216.00 144.00 144.00 360.00 360.00 0.00 360.00 288.00 72.00 UUO 0.00 50.00 0.00 0.00 450.00 0.00 0.00 450.00 450.00 MONITOR 900.00 0.00 0.00 900.00 900.00 0.00 900.00 0.00 900.00 Donations 0.00 0.00 600.00 0.00 1300.00 3500.00 1590.28 1986.71 2196.39 ------- ------- ------- ------ ------ ------- ------- ------- ------- 1552.00 1416.00 1680.00 1930.00 4048.00 4742.00 4672.28 4185.95 6952.90 Monthly S/D -3096.88 -2721.13 -3262.59 -2195.10 195.63 219.63 510.35 1556.76 -760.51 Quarterly S/D -9080.60 -1779.84 1306.60 * * We continue to see the stacking of supporters from 2023 and 2024, thank you so much! * While this month we had a modest deficit, we achieved our first quarterly surplus! * We continue to receive 100% matched donations from Boeing, Apple, Meta, Google and Microsoft. Please check with your organization to see if they'll match your support. 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! |