computer museum at GB Basel
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to the OLD Official Homepage of the Computer Museum
at Gymnasium Bäumlihof (GB) Basel, Switzerland
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Directory
A Walk through the Museum
Apple
IBM-PC & Klone
Video Games
Terminals
Calculators without Microprocessor
Commodore PET Series
Home Computers
Scientific Computers & Workstations
Our Public Events
Credits
Contact us!
Link Collection
Why is there a computer museum at GB?
Here's the answer (in German only)!
A Walk through the Museum
Apple ][, 1977 with floppy disc drives from 1978:
This is one of the old do-it-yourself Apples which we have put into an
original case. Our machine is upgraded to exchange software with a common
desktop computer.
Mac-Corner
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Macintosh Plus 1MB, 1986
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Macintosh Classic, 1988
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Macintosh IIsi, 1990
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Macintosh LC II, 1992 (?) = Performa 400-430 with 44MB exchangeable hard
discs
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Macintosh IIcx with external CD-ROM drive,1988
These machines are connected via an AppleTalk network and may hereby
exchange data. All these computers use a 68K processor from Motorola and
have an internal hard disc drive, except for the Macintosh Plus. This machine
only uses two 3.5" floppy disc drives, an internal and an external one.
The Macintosh computers provide a graphic user interface given by the
operating system "Finder / MacOS". They all use a mouse besides the keyboard.
The MacOS supports multitasking, i. e. more than one application may be
loaded into memory at the same time.
IBM-PC's and Clones
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IBM PS/2-System, 19xx, xxMB RAM, hard disc, so far running DOS.
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Commodore PC-40, 19xx, GB!!!
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Commodore SX-368, 19xx
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IBM PC 8088, 1981, 2 5.25"-floppy disc drives, no hard drive
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IBM PC 8088, 1981, with hard disc extension
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Laptop "Rein", 19xx
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Laptop Toshiba, 19xx
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Laptop xx, 19xx
Video Games
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Nintendo Super Entertainment System, 19xx
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Sega xxxx
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another old game system (?)
Terminals
We do not have a suitable terminal server to demonstrate how these machines
work.
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Digital printer terminal without screen, 19xx
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Digital VT-100, monochrom-CRT, 19xx
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MDS, 19xx (GB!!)
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Unisys, 19xx
Calculators without Microprocessor
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HP Calculator with magnetic card drive - so far we do not have any of these
cards :-(
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HP 9830A Calculator with printer and internal tape cassette drive - this
is our greatest machine - from 1972 (price in 1972: sFr 60'000,--)
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several other calculators, some mechanical.
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round slide rule from 1900, works without electrical power - fully functional
Commodore PET - Personal Electronic Transactor
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CBM 4032, 1978, with 5.25" floppy disc drive CBM 2031
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CBM 3016, 1978, with Datasette 2N tape cassette drive
Home Computers
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Commodore VC-20 (Volkscomputer), 19xx with Datasette tape cassette drive
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Commodore C64 mit 1541 5.25"-floppy disc drive
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ZX81 from Sinclair, 1981
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Schneider / Amstrad CPC6128 with 3"-floppy disc drive (!) and green tone
monitor GT65, 1985, supports CP/M
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Superbrain QD - 2 internal 5.25"-floppy disc drives; pure CP/M-system,
1980
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Schneider / Amstrad CPC464 with tape cassette drive and colour monitor,
1984
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Commodore C128, 19xx
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Commodore Amiga 500, 19xx
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Atari XE, 19xx
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Dragon 32, 1982
Scientific Computers & Workstations
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NeXT: 2 workstations, 1988
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Indy workstation (new): 1994?
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Our Public Events
This link will guide you to the photographs we
have taken during certain public events.
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Credits
All names are listed in alphabetical order - this is not a ranking table!
We first want to say thank you to Martin Sobernheim - assistant
for physics courses at GB - for his extraordinary help and support. Many
machines would not run without his assistance. In addition Martin contributed
several machines to the museum.
We continue the credits with persons who have provided important information
on several machines. Without these informations we would be quite helpless:
Finally, we list all donators that have contributed one or more machines
to the museum:
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F. Baumann
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R. Corzani
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C. Hofmann
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Fam. Stephan
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T. Süß
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Universität Basel
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Contact us!
We are always happy to hear from other computer oldie fans. But even
if you aren't a freak and if you have an old machine that you want to donate
to the museum don't hesitate to contact us. We mainly collect machines
that are pre-1990. Our IBM and clones line is pretty complete. We do not
need newer "IBM clones garbage" and heavily broken or incomplete machines
with no chance to repair them.
Our email addresses - please do not spam them with junk mail!
Dr. Gerald Süß: <g.suess@balcab.ch>
Jürgen Hench: <jhench@web.de>
Sven Süß: <splashman@balcab.ch>
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Link Collection
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last update: October 20th, 2005.