Hello all,

I posted this to the AusNOG list and someone suggested I cross post here as well...

This is a once off email to notify you of the Australian Computer Museum Society Incorporated (ACMS).

The ACMS is an Australian charity (donations are tax deductible) solely funded by membership and donations incorporated in the early 90's.

The current President of ACMS is John Deane (of CSIRO / WiFi fame).

The purpose of the Society is to preserve and maintain computer artefacts (particularly, but not limited to, Australian inventions), such as hardware, operation manuals and source code etc.

Some years ago they provided a tape drive to try and restore Moon landing data!

The ACMS has collections distributed throughout Australia, mostly in warehouses which can be viewed upon arrangement.

The primary goal is to open a public exhibit to show things like disk platters that are the size of a coffee table and blocks of RAM housed in wood and Perspex. They have many working systems that are older than most of us.

I wouldn't be surprised if many of you on this list used some of the artefacts in the 50s - 90s etc (pre Apple and Microsoft years).

There are many ways you can help (and they do need help):

* Join the public mailing list by sending a blank email to acms-list+subscribe@googlegroups.com. To post messages, email acms-list@googlegroups.com

* Like on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AustralianComputerMuseumSociety)

* Follow on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ACMS_org_au)

* Join on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Australian-Computer-Museum-Society-4511577?gid=4511577)

* Become a financial member $35/year tax deductible (http://www.acms.org.au/become-a-member)

* Make a tax deductible donation of any amount (http://www.acms.org.au/contribute)

* Volunteer by maintaining, donating or repairing artefacts. Engineers needed.

* Forwarding to friends and associates who may also be interested in Australian computing history and preservation

* Help with the new website (http://www.acms.org.au).

Interested to hear your thoughts... I'm considering organising a kickstarter style crowdfunding project for them as well.

Many other countries have computer heritage exhibits (UK and US are obvious)... Check out the website Timeline - .au should have one as well, before all is forgotten from living memory.

Cheers,
-Patrick