5-to-1 Match for Colorado Computer Museum - 2023

This fundraiser is organized by Colorado Computer Museum.

Tax deductible

You can make a difference by donating today to Colorado Computer Museum - what better day than #GivingTuesday to kick off our fundraiser! We have another amazing five-to-one match on gifts given by the end of 2023 - while we're shooting for $20,000, the match applies up to $40,000 in case you're all overachievers!

We collect, conserve, and exhibit all kinds of information processing technology, preserve the knowledge of it, illuminate its effect on society, and foster understanding of the underlying science. Illuminating the effect of technology on society entails exhibiting computer systems as well as items from other fields, showing how they worked before and after the "digital convergence." Our tagline is "A Hands-On History of Information Technology," because we value interactivity and authentic experiences with vintage technology.

Thanks to donors just like you, we've had a great year:

Installed a substantial warehouse shelving system in our new building
Deployed our traveling interactive computer history exhibit in our own space
Put our Cray-2 supercomputer and other artifacts on display
Received a PDP-11/34 system, a Heathkit EC-1 analog computer, an Osborne 1 (with maintenance manuals!), an IBM 5100, a CPT 8000 word processor, various single-board computers and trainers, a 30-year collection of Wired magazine, and many other historical items
Showed our exhibit to people from near and far, including hosting a university-level history of computing class

Your gifts today enable us to continue to progress in all these areas. This fundraiser is intended to cover most of our expenses for the coming year. We've made a lot of headway since the photo above was taken, but we still have a ways to go:

Lighting and other projects to complete on the building
Upgrades to the exhibit space
Move more items from their present storage locations to the new warehouse
Finish setting up our media lab for "bit" preservation (software and data)
Outfit our restoration shop area
Plus routine expenses for utilities and so on

Our long-term goal is to use the present facility to show our small exhibit to the public while we prepare more items to be on display at a future large-scale exhibit space.

We appreciate any help you can give by donating, passing this opportunity along to others you know, or posting it on your favorite social media sites.

Come see us at our "vintage" web site: http://www.trailingedge.org

Join our announcements email list at https://groups.google.com/g/ccm-announcements

If you'd like to interact with other supporters of Colorado Computer Museum, you can join the Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cocomputermuseumfriends

Thank you!

Colorado Computer Museum is a 501(c)(3) public charity, so donations are tax-deductible under Section 170 of the United States Internal Revenue Code.

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