Give to
the collection.
Hardware, software, marketing material, photographs, and oral histories — anything that helps document the pen-based computing era is welcome. The museum catalogues, digitizes, and credits every contribution.
What we
collect.
Hardware
Tablets, slates, handhelds, palmtops, prototypes.
Working or not. Original packaging, manuals, power supplies, and accessories all add provenance and are catalogued separately.
Software
Floppies, CDs, packages, install media, source code.
PenPoint, Palm Computing, Windows for Pen Computing, Newton OS, GO PenPoint apps, third-party utilities — anything that ran on a stylus-driven machine.
Print & ephemera
Magazines, brochures, conference programs, ads.
Trade press, datasheets, internal memos, business cards, T-shirts. Anything that captures how the industry talked about itself at the time.
Photos & oral histories
Stories from the people who built it.
Engineering tales, team photos, recorded interviews, written recollections. We'll digitize and preserve everything.
How it
works.
01
Get in touch
Email [email protected] with a short list of what you have. Photos help, but a plain text inventory is fine.
02
We confirm scope
Within a few days we'll tell you what fits the collection. We welcome duplicates to the existing holdings. We never accept anything we can't properly accession.
03
Ship or pick up
We share a shipping address and packing tips, or arrange a local pickup in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each item is photographed, catalogued, and credited to the donor unless you ask to remain anonymous.
Pen-Based Computing History Museum is an independent online archive, not a registered nonprofit, so donations aren't tax-deductible. If that matters for your contribution, mention it in your first email and we'll talk through alternatives.