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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


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

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