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As you can see from the heading, the Arlington Museum of Information Technology is now the Museum of Information Technology at Arlington. This small change is intended to more accurately describe the orientation of the museum. Our location is in Arlington, but our focus is broader than that. It begins with the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex, but then expands to North Texas, then all of Texas, then the mid-west United States. ;)

 

On March 14, 2009 we held the first annual Vintage Computer Festival South Lite. The page contains some pictures.

 

Recently we got a VAX-11/730 with a CDC Keystone 9-track tape drive and numerous disk drives. The machine itself is not unique, but the DEC VAX is an important family of computers so we really needed to have one. The most important item in this collection is possibly the CDC 9762 disk drive tester/exerciser. This unit is significant because the 9762 was an OEM product used on many minicomputers. Most significantly for us, it was a major component of the Four-Phase line.

CDC Disk Tester

We have an ongoing project to refurbish some of our S-100 bus machines. We are starting with an IMSAI machine donated to us by the family of Calvin Barker.

We also lately received this nice IBM System 3 Model 8. We have been told by a System 3 expert that the model 8 is the only one still existing that he is aware of.

This is our main prize - The IV/70 chassis out of a Four Phase Systems IV/90. This one contains a IV/70 CPU card so it is functioning as a IV/70.

 

MITA has been involved in a project with the Design Texas group at the University of Texas Arlington to create a new branding for the museum. We will be making an announcement in the next few weeks about the outcome. We are quite excited about the results and we know you will like the new branding. You can see a version of the new logo at the top of this page.

 

MITA is recognized by the IRS as a non-profit scientific and educational corporation.