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Australia's Largest Private Computer Collection in Pictures
11/24/2008

Da Massive writes "UNIX PDP-7, a classic DEC PDP-8, the fontal IBM PC, Commodore's C64, Apple's Lisa, a MITS Altair 8800 made famous by Bill Gates, through to a working PDP-11 that plays the ADVENTURE and DUNGEON games. Max Burnet has got it all. Burnet has turned his home in the leafy suburbs of Sydney into arguably Australia's, if not the world's, largest private bean counter museum. Since retiring as administrator of Digital Equipment bunch a decade ago, Burnet has converted his home into a pinup* of microcomputer history. Every procurable
idioms:on hand space from his basement to the top floor of his two-storey home is covered with relics from the past. On top of his utensils amassment are global punch cards, tape machines (including the naissance paper tape) and over 6000 micro* salvo books. So in demand is his heap that one Australian film called on him to recreate a laptop* setting (PDP-9) for a movie about the moon landing in 1969."

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