technikum29 

Museum for the historical development of calculator, computer and communication technology

What's new?

This is a news feed for the recent changes on our homepage. The latest posts are on top.

  • June 2010

    We are writing an ongoing Blog about the UNIVAC 9300 reparation. The english translation won't be always up to date, so take a look at the original german Reparatur-Blog if you really want to get the latest news.

  • March 2010

    There is the new section Reading punch cards with contemprary computers on our Development Projects page. It's an article that illustrates the connection of modern computer hardware with old electronic data processing technology

  • January 2010

    A new challenge: The UNIVAC 9200 data processing center was moved from the archives to the museum building and is currently restored optically and technically.
    Foto der UNIVAC 9200 Anlage

    Univac 9200 in restoration
    See new page UNIVAC 9200

  • January 2010

    The structure of our homepage was improved. We arranged topics with more headings and improved the site design.

  • November 2009

    We're have published the new page The Pianola and Miscellaneous where you can see some highly interesting exhibits that neither match computer nor communication technology.

  • November 2009

    There are many new pictures on our page about Broadcasting, there will be new more verbose texts soon (you can read them already in german). We're about to gradually replace all low quality images with high resolution pictures. Pleace take care that they are still protected by international copyright law. If you want to use some of them, please contact us.

  • October 2009

    Photography of the Univac 1770 verifying interpreting punch

    New devices: UNIVAC 1710 Verifying Interpreting Punch
    suitable to our Univac 9400 mainframe

  • October 2009

    There's a new page, Development Projects, where we'll exhibit some of our interdisciplinary development efforts.

  • July 2009

    The IBM 1442 punch card reader/puncher (Photography)

    This IBM 1442 card reader/puncher, year of manufacture 1966, is one of the new devices we got this month. It was a peripheral device for the IBM 1130 or IBM 360 computer. Since we do not have either of them, we plan to connect this device to a PC with an interface that we are currently developing.

  • July 2009

    We're urgently looking for manuals for an Anelex drum printer.

  • July 2009

    Our Measurement technology collection was extended for experimental technology thanks to a donation from a german school.

  • June 2009

    Extracting roots with the Tabulating Machine! Virtually impossible, but we tried to reconstruct some 50-years-old bet.

  • March 2009

    Gain an exceptional insight the Telefunken T40W.