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Local Sales and Servicing - Digital
Equipment Corporation hardware:
Equipment Management Inc., Leominster MA.
Ricardo Vargas, 978-534-2074 x22
Where to Sell your old Digital Equipment Corporation hardware:
We recently connected with one commercial vendor that still buys and sells Digital hardware. Twin Cities Digital in Minnesota specializes in keeping the DEC brand alive - accepting and reselling DEC products. Link to their website. Contact name: Bob Leach,
bob@tcdigital.com
Where to Donate your old Digital Equipment Corporation
stuff:
Computers,
Documentation, and Logo Souvenirs
From time to time, we receive inquiries about where former employees can
donate their old Digital computers, documentation, and/or marketing
souvenirs.
The DEC Connection has collaborated with a few different partners who
have resources, real estate and an academic interest in keeping Digital
Equipment Corporation and its legacy alive for future generations.
We are happy to refer folks to these partners.
If you know of additional organizations that would be interested in
receiving like donations, email
webmaster@decconnection.org
with the details (organization name, contact name, email, phone number) and they
will be added to this webpage.
For marketing promo items such as logo souvenirs the
DEC Connection website has a
museum page. Send a digital
photo of yourself with your computer or logo souvenirs to webmaster@decconnection.org
to be posted on our page.
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Contact Info |
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Gordon College
Wenham MA |
Dan Tymann, Exec. V.P. Development
dan.tymann@gordon.edu
(978) 927-2300 |
Home of
Ken Olsen Science Center
and Ken's archives, including an interactive video kiosk of DEC
employee interviews. Accepts donations of computer equipment and
technical documentation. Monetary donations to the college in
Ken's memory are also appreciated. |
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Maynard
Historical Society
Maynard MA |
Dave Griffin, President
davebets@mac.com |
All activities, projects, and
publications are 100% volunteer effort. The Maynard
Historical Society has items relating to the Mill and Ken Olsen
that were exhibited during Oct 2011 event. |
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The
Computer Museum
Mountain View CA and in
cyberspace |
TBD |
TCM
was founded by Ken Olsen and Gordon and Gwen Bell in 1975 and
originally resided in the lobby of MR02.
See Gordon's cyberspace tour launched from our
website here. |
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Rhode
Island Computer Museum
North Kingstown RI |
Michael Thompson
michael.99.thompson@gmail.com
Dan, Merle
(401) 603-3321
rhodeislandcomputermuseum@gmail.com
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Catalog of equipment: lots of
Digital stuff!
http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/
and are
currently doing 6 restoration projects with: PDP-9, PDP-8i,
PDP-8L, PDP-8S #4, and PDP-11/44. See left menu on their
website. Extensive cyberspace version also. |
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Vintage Computer Federation
InfoAge
Science Center
Wall NJ |
Evan Koblentz, Director
evan@vcfed.org
(646) 546-9999 |
Vintage Computer Federation
is a national organization. VCFed is a proper 501(c)(3)
non-profit.
The organization
operates VCF East, VCF West, the Vintage
Computer Forum, and a hands-on computer museum
at our NJ headquarters.
Read more here on our
website. |
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Recycle Computers4 Cancer
MA |
The contact for RC4C is Eric Grund at
eric@smcac.org(781) 789-5413 DONATING OR RECYCLING COMPUTER EQUIPMENT
It's that time of year when you may be thinking of donating
older electronic equipment to Charity.
For New England readers, it has come to our attention that
there is a local cancer charity that you may
want to put on your list. This charity is helped by volunteer
professionals [scientists and information
technologists]. |
Recycle Computers4 Cancer
www.recyclecomputers4cancer.org
donates all proceeds to help Cancer patients and their families
through the SMCAC (Scientific
& Medical Coalition Against Cancer). They securely erase all
data on hard drives that are donated.
Also, all computer donations are Mass tax deductible charitable
donations. Equipment can be dropped
off or arranged to be picked up. Items accepted for donation
are listed at
http://www.recyclecomputers4cancer.org/items-accepted-donations-recycle-computers-4-cancer/ |
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