Current Exhibits
This post documents most of the current exhibits as well as preserves what has been on display and highlights what is new. It is organized as top being the current exhibition organized in groups by area. All exhibits are considered permanent unless noted as a rotating exhibit. Remotely accessible machines are noted as OnLINE.
August 2025
Location 954 Front Room:
The document scanning and software preservation/recovery room is in the process of being set up. This includes devices for bulk and page scanning with “flattening” technology which allows book binding to remain intact. The stack of bankers boxes are all MIT Multics archives from Olin Sibert.
Location 954 Gallery:
The large systems gallery features an assortment of minicomputers from Data General and Digital Equipment Corporation. These machines can be run and demonstrated in this space and with the exception of the PDP-10 and the PDP-11/70, have recently been serviced and have had new power supplies installed.
This gallery can be visited by guests while we’re getting things set up. Be sure to book a time on the evening of October 2nd for our Large Systems Gallery Opening just before the Fall Interim Computer Festival.
Preliminary Machines
- decdatasystem 570
- DEC PDP-11/70
- DEC PDP-8/e
- DEC PDP-12
- DEC PDP-7
- DEC PDP-10 model KA10
- Data General NOVA 3
- Data General ECLIPSE MV/8000
- Galaxy Game
- Thinking Machines: Connection Machine 2
- Symbolics 3670 LISP Machine
July 2025
Location 998 Front Room:
- Multics 6180 animated maintenance panel with DPS-8/M simulation (OnLINE)
- DEC PDP-8/s, DEC LINC-8 and decdatasystem-570 (Miss Piggy) (OnLINE)
- Replica table: PiDP-8/i, Altair 8800, KENBAK-1, RCA COSMAC ELF, SBC-6120
- Rail Road Telegraph station link to Location 954
- Seattle Computer Products S-1000 Gazelle
- DEC VT-180 CP/M computer
Location 998 Main Room:
- DEC PDP-8/e (CHEKMO-II chess and Colossal Cave Adventure)
- DEC LAB-8/e (DECtape Software preservation)
- AT&T 605 terminal with access to Remote Vintage Systems
- Atari 600XL w/ FujiNET
- Commodore 64 w/ TeensyROM and C64OS
- PiDP-10 running ITS
- Data General NOVA
- AT&T Teletype 5620 BLIT terminal connected to the 3B2/1000-70
- DEC decwriter ][ printing terminal
- MEGA 65 (a realization of the Commodore 65 microcomputer)
- Raspberry pi400 running Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- MNT Reform running Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- DEC PDP-6 w/ Type 340 display (OnLINE)
- Centurion Computer
- XKL Toad-1
- PDP-11/15, PDP-11/40, PDP-8/L
- DEC decmate ]I[ (rotating exhibit)
- Apple ][e (rotating exhibit)
- Apple Macintosh SE (rotating exhibit)
Location 998 Side Room:
- Xerox 850 electronic document workstation
- CRT Television w/ Nintendo NES, ColecoVision, Atari VCS and Sony PSone
- Cinematronics SOLAR QUEST
- DEC PDP-10 KS10
- Symbolics 3670 LISP machine HOST for Thinking machines Connection Machine 2
- Vectrex gaming console
- Nintendo Virtual Boy
- IMLAC PDS-1D featuring 3 player Spacewar!
Location 998 Remote Systems
- SGI Indy R5000 (OnLINE)
- DEC Alpha Station 200 (OnLINE)
- HP 9000/715 (OnLINE)
- VAX-4000/60 (OnLINE)
- AT&T 3B2-1000/70 (OnLINE)
- Systems Concepts SC40 (OnLINE)
- Data General AViiON (OnLINE)
- SUN 3/160 (OnLINE)
- DEC PDP-11/03
- DEC PDP-11/84
- Cray EL92
Location 954 Early Office Automation and Microcomputers
- IBM 029 keypunch
- IBM 082 punch card sorter
- Rail Road Telegraph station to Location 998
- Radio Teletype ASR 28 station
- 1945 MEMEX realization desk
- 1971 Englebart Mouse for NLS at Stanford Research Insitute
- 1974 SCELBI-8H
- 1975 Altair 8800 w/ Teletype ASR33 running Microsoft 4K BASIC
Location 954 Archiving and Digitization lab
- Document scanning station
- Software Preservation station for 8″, 5.25″ and 3.5″ floppy disks
- MIT Project MAC CTSS and Multics documentation and listings
Location 954 Large Systems Gallery
- Thinking Machines: Connection Machine 2
- Symbolics 3670 LISP machine HOST for CM2
- IBM 1620 MK I w/ paper tape reader/punch
- IBM 4361
- DEC PDP-10 model KI10 decsystem-1060
- DEC PDP-10 model KL10 (Macsyma Consortium MIT-MC.ARPA)
- DEC PDP-7 w/ Type 340 display running UNICS version 0
- DEC PDP-8/e running TSS/8
- DEC PDP-12 running DIAL
- Data General NOVA 3
- Data Genera ECLIPSE MV/8000
Many thx to caretaker for listing this great exhibition of many heroes of IT-archaology devices.
Because oversea, Im mostly interested to propagate here in the east the remote accesible devices. Monthly we held a PDP8 TSS8 session on the sdf.org PDP-8/e and if somebody want we give introduce to DCL on ROSIE. Also we work on of the fine PiDP8 here.
But now the question, the listed devices are not all also listed on connect.sdf.org?
May be Im wrong.
Now (21.9.2025, 15:13:16 MEZ) I see noted for “OnLINE” in the Post by caretaker on ICM-site:
“Multics 6180 animated maintenance panel with DPS-8/M simulation (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org [a] multics Multics MR12.8 Honeywell 6180 ]
DEC PDP-8/s,
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org +++ doesnt find it +++ ]
DEC LINC-8 and
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org +++ doesnt find it +++ ]
decdatasystem-570 (Miss Piggy) (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org [a] misspiggy UNIX v7 PDP-11/70 ]
Location 998 Main Room:
DEC PDP-6 w/ Type 340 display (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org +++ doesnt find it +++ ]
Location 998 Remote Systems
SGI Indy R5000 (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org [i] indy IRIX 6.5 SGI Indy R5000 ]
DEC Alpha Station 200 (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org [g] truly TRU64 5.0 DEC Alpha 200/166]
HP 9000/715 (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org [f] hkypux HP/UX 10.20 HP9000/715 ]
VAX-4000/60 (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org +++ doesnt find it +++ ]
May be it means VAX-4000/96?: [i] rosenkrantz OpenVMS 7.3 VAX 4000-96
AT&T 3B2-1000/70 (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org [c] lcm3b2 UNIX SVR3.2.3 AT&T 3B2/1000-70 ]
Systems Concepts SC40 (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org
[d] sc40 TOPS-20 MARS 7(21733) SC Group SC40
[e] sc40 TOPS-10 MARS 7.05 SC Group SC40 ]
Data General AViiON (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org +++ doesnt find it +++ ]
SUN 3/160 (OnLINE)
[EQ? to connect.sdf.org [h] three SunOS 4.1.1 Sun-3/160 ]
So only 5 are in my category “+++ doesnt find it +++” on connect.sdf.org:
DEC PDP-8/s,
DEC LINC-8
DEC PDP-6 w/ Type 340 display
Data General AViiON
VAX-4000/60 (may be ROSIE?)
Any help apraciated.
You reach me on ROSIE ( VAX-4000/96 with VMS) as user DDP516 or more often online in our IT-Archaeology Matrix Room:
https://matrix.to/#/#retrocomputing:erfurt.chat
as
@pflegedissens:matrix.org
CU
Do you have a running MULTICS machine?
I didn’t see an IBM 9000 ..this range of z8000 computers were revolutionary in scientific instruments. And are at the Y that was when IBM had to decide on the Motorola cpu with linear ram access or the much cheaper Intel with a very limited ram addressing. Because of visicalc IBM dropped the fantastic 9000 and the rest is a very poor history. I used several 9000s in my lab and have one working one remaining. My guess is that there is no interest in it.
Any interest in a Zorba Transportable from the mid eighties?