Vintage computer needs a good home

Donald from Swannanoa - Ohoka

I'm cleaning up my property as it's on the market. I have a TRS-80 model 1 that I bought in early 1980 when I was working in the UK. I also have the Radio Shack cassette recorder that was used to save data. I've often used the cassette recorder as a prop for technology and careers talks - what may be ahead of us and where we have come from - I gave whilst working in Brunei from 1996 to 2018.



Is there such a thing as a technology museum in Canterbury, or a collector that anyone can recommend, that may want the computer (free). It's not fully functional as the rats chewed a cable whilst I was overseas.



Also looking for a home are the first two years of the Bits & Bytes magazine. The first issue went on sale on October 1982. (The first issue was free so technically the first one that a subscriber had to pay for was issue 2 the following month.)


As an aside, the problem with cleaning up is that I've now spent a number of hours re-reading through some of the magazines... my generation is experiencing a massive change in computing and societal connectivity. For example, my TRS-80 ran on just 16kB of memory! The evolution of flight was a leading aspect of technology that affected my mum's generation. She saw Kingsford Smith fly into Christchurch on his 1928 trans-Tasman crossing when she was young, and later in life was able to fly to the UK in a 747. I do wonder what my children and grandchildren will experience.