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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Mark Tyson

Computer History Museum recalls ‘astonishing’ retro haul recovered from abandoned German warehouse — over 2,000 artifacts spanning the 1930s to 1980s required seven tractor-trailers after a WWII bomb scare

Artifacts rescued from an abandoned warehouse in Germany.

The Computer History Museum (CHM) recalls one of its biggest ever retro treasure troves, rescued from an abandoned warehouse in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, situated North West from Dortmund, Germany. Images show an outstanding amount of retro gear taking up much of the space within an aircraft hangar-sized triple-story warehouse. These artifacts would include relics spanning computing eras, starting way back in the 1930s up to the 1980s. After much work, briefly interrupted by the discovery of an unexploded WWII bomb nearby, over 2,000 museum pieces were containerized and trucked back to California.

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