We’ve added a small exhibit for this device under our “What If” wall because it’s an early computing device meant for home/school use. The programming was done by installing logic blocks with pegs into the surface and connecting them with…

Please visit us weekly Thursday-Saturday all summer. We will open in the evenings to support special events downtown as well. Regular Summer Hours: Thursday and Friday 11-5. Saturday 11-3. Extended hours to support outdoor dining and special events Tours during…

Pat Hilend of Pheonixville, PA stopped by the shop, and with appropriate “social distancing”, dropped off a papertape to be archived that he claims to have had been created using a Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer containing a “data dump” from the…

The Kennett Classic shop on Union St. will be open by appointment only until the Coronavirus/COVID-19 state of emergency has passed, per State of PA guidelines. Please call ahead before your arrival, admittance will be based on safety still-evolving guidelines.…

Details 1st Annual Kennett Classic is still a GO…NEW EXHIBITS, SWAP MEET, FESTIVITIES, FREE ADMISSION RSVP – Let us know you’re coming here (meetup.com). Swap Signup – Reserve a swap space here (vintagecomputer.net). The weather couldn’t be better in late…

If you have a Macintosh or any computer from the late 1980’s early 1990’s, open the chassis and locate the motherboard clock battery, it’s almost certainly dead. Sooner or later the battery will leak all over the surrounding components and…

About 10 years ago I picked up a small collection of 360K 5 1/4″ diskettes from a Wilmington, Delaware user group called PC-PUG. Exploring the content of the disks I surmised that PCPUG was active in the mid 1980’s and…

This weekend we added a circa 1972-3 PDP 11/05 minicomputer exhibit. This computer has BASIC stored in core memory and operates from a Teletype Model 33. After powering on the system, toggle in the correct address using the front panel…

Did you know we provide file conversion services for obsolete software? We also provide services to recover old files from ancient 8 inch and 5 1/4″ diskettes and other old file storage media. And if you want to do it…

Newly installed, we have a fun little demo exhibit called the MITS Altair 8800 Jukebox that has been designed to play musical tunes over the AM radio. The Altair does this by executing instructions that through trial and error have…