Matching Challenge for Colorado Computer Museum - 2024
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You can make a difference by donating today to Colorado Computer Museum - we're kicking off our annual fundraiser with a matching challenge that will double every contribution up to a total of $10,000 through the end of 2024!
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 kept busy moving our mission forward:
- Showed the computer history exhibit at our Berthoud/Johnstown warehouse to people from near and far, including a local youth development group and hosting the summer picnic for a local engineering society
- Received numerous historical items for the collection, including a substantial collection of StorageTek newsletters, a Datapoint 2200 desktop computer as part of an early voice and data switching system, an Interdata 7/16 minicomputer system that was used to visualize data downlinked from the Skylab orbiting solar observatory in the 1970s, and many vintage books, magazines, software items, and ephemera
- Acquired a second industrial warehouse condominium to enhance our exhibit and storage capacity. The timing of this was quite Providential, as we soon thereafter unexpectedly lost a large parcel of rented storage and had to move those contents on short notice
- Applied for property tax exemption for both of our warehouse properties; if granted, this will be a very substantial savings
Your gifts today enable us to continue to progress in all these areas. This is an especially crucial time, as we are expecting substantial increases in our property association dues, and of course, utility expenses are increased with two warehouse spaces, in addition to many ongoing projects, such as:
- Lighting and other projects to complete on the buildings
- Upgrades to the exhibit space
- Organize the many items we had to move hurriedly into our new space
- Develop additional exhibits
- 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 facilities 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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