Preserving the experience
A machine’s history lives in its hardware, its software, and the way people used it.
Keep the machine and its working life together
We preserve photographs, source files, disks, manuals, and recollections alongside the machines. An inscription can identify a journey; a source file can reveal a design decision; a running screen can show what the hardware made possible. Collection records bring those pieces together.
Working demonstrations use preserved software, emulation, and documented repairs to make the experience available again. Recovery notes accompany the recordings. Original files and working copies are retained with their histories so that each step can be studied and repeated.
Software at the workbench
Interflex combines the original interface with a reconstructed exchange. Tex-Win runs from recovered source with repaired pointers. MegaMagic’s recording restores lost icon artwork. RipServer uses a serial input path for its demonstration, and MegaFONT’s original letter strokes are drawn by a new driver. These small interventions make the design of each program visible again.
Sirius brings processors, firmware, display, and keyboard together in emulation. Its engineering pages explain the recovered configuration and the display repair used for a readable visitor experience.