| The following is a list of machines the Museum will no longer accept. |
| A/KSR-33 Teletype |
| Amiga 500/1000/2000 |
| Any PC 'clone' of any era |
| Apple II (+/c/e/gs) |
| Apple III |
| Apple Imagewriter |
| Apple Macs (any model except original 128K) |
| Apple Performa (any model) |
| Apple Power Macintosh (any model) |
| Apple PowerBook 145/160/170 |
| Aquarius Computer |
| Atari 400/800/1040/1200 XL/ST |
| Bell & Howell Apple computers |
| Brother Word Processors (any model) |
| Coleco Adam |
| Commodore 64 |
| Commodore 64 portable executive computer |
| Commodore PET |
| Commodore VIC-20 |
| Compaq laptops (any model) |
| Compaq portable (any model) |
| Convergent Technologies Workslate |
| Daisywheel/Dot Matrix/Laser printers |
| DEC minicomputers |
| DEC Rainbow |
| Eagle PC |
| Epson laptop / portable (any model) |
| Floppy disk drives |
| FORTRAN 25th anniversary video (any format) |
| Franklin Ace 1000 |
| Gavilan (any model) |
| GENIAC |
| Go Corp. Tablet Computers (any model) |
| GO/EO (any model) |
| GRiD System Corporation GRiD GridPad 2260 "Convertible" personal computer |
| Heathkit H89 |
| HP 85 |
| HP Calculator (any model except HP 9830A ) |
| HP Deskjet |
| HP-150 |
| HP2000, 2114/5/6 |
| IBM Convertible PC |
| IBM PC Jr. |
| IBM PC Portable |
| IBM PC/AT |
| IBM PC/XT |
| IBM System 34 |
| IBM ThinkPad (any model) |
| IBM/Compaq/Dell PCs (any model) |
| IMSAI 8080 |
| Kaypro (any model) |
| Keyboards (unless non-english) |
| KIM-1 |
| Mass produced software less than 10 years old |
| Mice (unless 1st generation) |
| Mindset |
| MODEMs |
| Monitors |
| Morrow Pivot |
| Most CP/M machines, including: Altos, Xitan, Onyx, Cromemco, Northstar, Ohio Scientific |
| Multimeters |
| NeXT Cube |
| NeXTstation |
| Osborne (any model) |
| Oscilloscopes |
| Otrona Attache Portable Computer |
| Poqet palmtop |
| SC/MP development system |
| Silent 700 terminal |
| Slide Rules (teaching) |
| snoopy |
| SOL Terminal Computer |
| Speak and Spell |
| Tandy 1000 |
| Teaching Slide Rules |
| Tektronix oscilloscopes (any model) |
| TI 99/4 |
| Timex Sinclair |
| Toshiba laptops (any model) |
| Toshiba T1000 laptop computer |
| TRS-80 (any model) |
| Typewriters |
| Workslate |
| Wright Punch manual card punch (any model) |
| Xerox 820 II |
| Zenith Z-171 PC |
| Zeos Pocket PC |
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| The following is a list of periodicals the Museum will no longer accept. |
| ACM 71: A Quarter Century View |
| ACM Computing Reviews |
| ACM Computing Surveys 1969-1995 |
| Adobe Magazine |
| AmiPro |
| Byte Magazine |
| Communications of the ACM |
| Computer Currents |
| Computer Shopper |
| Computer World |
| COMPUTE’s PC Magazine before 1988 |
| E week |
| Hewlett-Packard Journal |
| IBM Journal of Research and Development |
| IBM Systems Journal before January 2000 |
| Inside MS Access |
| Journal of the ACM (JACM) |
| Kilobaud |
| Kilobaud / Microcomputing |
| LAN Technology |
| Linux Magazine before February 2004 |
| Lotus |
| Macintosh Today |
| MacUser |
| Macworld |
| Manufacturing Systems |
| Microcomputing |
| MicroTimes |
| PC Resource |
| PC Tech journal |
| PC Techniques |
| PC Today |
| Scientific Computing and Automation |
| Smart Business for the New economy |
| Time Life Books Understanding Computers Series (any book in the series) |
| Turbo Technix |
| Visual Developer |
| Wired Magazine Before January 2002 |