Vintage Technology Collector

Today I came across the " The Big Internet Museum ", they're generally open 24 x 7, but per the website " We will be closed during the Brazilian Carnival, for obvious reasons. "  To be honest I haven't seen a online Internet museum for a little while, and I like how this one is laid out.  The entrance fee is free, and you may find it worth the 3-5 minutes you may spend on the site.

The Harwell computer, later known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell (WITCH), or the Harwell Dekatron Computer, was an early British relay-based computer. From 2009 to 2012, it was restored at the National Museum of Computing, where it is described as "the oldest original functioning electronic stored program computer in the world". The museum hopes to use the computer's visual, dekatron-based memory to teach schoolchildren about computers.[

Microsoft Windows 1.0 is a 16-bit graphical operating environment, developed by Microsoft Corporation and released on November 20, 1985. It was Microsoft's first attempt to implement a multi-tasking graphical user interface-based operating environment on the PC platform. Windows 1.0 was the first version of Windows launched. It was succeeded by Windows 2.0. Microsoft ended support for Windows 1.0 on December 31, 2001. (from Wikipedia ) Video Description: Windows 1.0 feature demo. Video Description: A Microsoft slideshow advertising the features of Windows 1.0. Video Description: Steve Ballmer promoting Microsoft Windows 1.0. Video Description: This video shows boot screen and desktop of all the versions of Windows 1.0 - 8.0.

Video Description: "The computer was invented in the 30s: not the 1930s, but the 1830s. British mathematician Charles Babbage designed and prototyped a fully functional mechanical computer he called the Analytical Engine, but it was never completed. Now a team in Britain plans to build the machine for display at London's Science Museum before the 2030s come around."

BBC News  reports: France is switching off its groundbreaking Minitel service which brought online banking, travel reservations, and porn to millions of users in the 1980s. But then came the worldwide web. Minitel has been slowly dying and the plug will be pulled on Saturday. (read the rest of the article )

Video Description: "Paul Otlet, a Belgian bibliographer, pacifist and entrepreneur imagined a day when users would access the database from great distances by means of an "electric telescope" connected through a telephone line, retrieving a facsimile image to be projected remotely on a flat screen." (More information ) Paul Otlet is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science. (More information )

Here is an excerpt for a rare item from an eBay Auction : " *Early 4-banger desktop calculator is in excellentcondition and works perfectly! *Includes original power cord. *Unusual Itron display is "Crisp and Bright" with all segments illumined. *Keys are responsive and all functions perform correctly."   (read more on the  auction  page)