SEL 810A and Natural Gas Pipeline data-control station racks, powered up

Workshop · Museum floor · Restoration service

We keep old computing alive.

Come stand in front of a running 1960s mainframe, take a class, or bring us the tape nobody else can read. One shop, two halves — and the machines on our floor are the proof that the paid work is in good hands.

Row of vintage microcomputers running side by side at a show

For curious humans

Visit & Learn

Open hours, hands-on classes, restoration nights, and school groups. Everything on the floor is a real machine — most of it powered up, and you’re allowed to touch the keyboards.

Restoration bay: minicomputer cabinets and tape gear along the shop wall

For businesses, labs & archives

Restore & Convert

Data recovered from tape, floppies and disk packs. Legacy formats migrated. Systems still running a line or a lab kept running — or modernized on your schedule. Quotes in writing, media handled under NDA.

Same shop, same people. The museum floor proves the paid work — the paid work keeps the floor open.

1966 · SYSTEMS ENGINEERING LABS

SEL 810A

Pulled from a Natural Gas Pipeline Co. data-control station and brought back to life. Lamp display lit, switches live.

RUNNING

1981 · IBM

IBM PC

The machine that set the standard everything after it had to live with. Boots from 5.25″ floppy, and you can type on it.

HANDS ON

1984 · APPLE

Macintosh

A 9-inch screen, one button, and the first computer most people weren’t afraid of. Good first stop for kids.

HANDS ON

Next up at the shop

Restoration nights are free and open — bring a machine or just bring questions. Classes are small on purpose.

THU · WEEKLY

Restoration night

Free · open bench

SAT · MONTHLY

Read-your-old-disks day

Bring media · free

SUN · MONTHLY

Intro to soldering

8 seats · $35

BY REQUEST

School & scout tours

60 min · free
Full calendar & signups

The counter

Take something home

Restored machines looking for a desk, fresh archival media and supplies, and shop shirts. Stock changes weekly — sold at the counter first.

Browse the shop

RESTORED

Machines & systems, tested and documented

MEDIA

Blank & archival media, sleeves, cleaning kit

MERCH

Shirts and stickers that fund the floor