WELCOME ALL

Administrator

Administrator
Staff member
I would like to cordially invite you to join the Wisconsin Computer Club. We're a relatively small local organization based out of Stevens Point Wisconsin, and do not have membership fees or dues. Our core values are preservation, education, and responsible recycling. Through our website here, our Facebook page, and our numerous community events we hope to share our collective love of retro tech of every stripe with people of every sort. We've been lucky enough to partner with a variety of local organizations to help raise funds and awareness for a variety of causes, including our own core efforts to preserve old tech, and moreover to keep potentially hazardous e-waste out of our soil, water, and environment at large. Through our in-house efforts and our educational programming, we hope to dramatically reduce the volume of e-waste that is disposed of improperly both in Portage County, across Wisconsin, and beyond.

Feel free to sign up here and join the fun, and/or "like" our Facebook page to join the fun today!

Many thanks, and have a great day!

-Alex Macomber, Director, Wisconsin Computer Club
 

marc_luscher

New member
well now I'm just ashamed of all the (100+) old computers I've left behind over the years, starting with a prototype processor from the plant in Az (dad was a Motorola lifer involved with the 6800 development) - the weird thing about my first homebuilt computer was the dual-clock on the prototype 6800 (MEK6800D2 eval boards), the kit I assembled at First Toilet (LOL - auto correct fixed "Fort Riley" for me) was a ZX-81 w/16Kb ram expansion, M68HC05 family devs, countless ibm PCs/clones, a CP/M Superbrain, a couple of Sun Workstations, 35+ laptops, various Apples/Macintoshes, a hackintosh (is it OK to admit that ?), an Apple Power PC (which I genuinely miss), Amiga 500s, Trash-80s, low-end Commodore boxes, etc. etc. etc. - more than I can begin to remember.
 
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zorlof

Member
Yeah, we all have regrets, although it sounds like you have more than most in this area. When I was a kid we had a coco2 that I learned to program on as well and a trs80 4d. The 4d eventually went back to a sibling who I think threw it out, and I have no clue whatever happened to our coco2. Then we moved on to PCs, but never saved the old stuff along the way.

There was one point in time I was offered ~50 IBM model M keyboards (and some other stuff too) for free. Wish I had taken them up on that!
 

Spudster

New member
Thank you for running this ship. I'm excited to share my collection with everyone, donate extra equipment to the club, and assist with repairs.
 
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