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HomeComputerMuseum

Officiële pagina van het HomeComputerMuseum. Het grootste interactieve computermuseum van de Benelux met meer dan 500 werkende computers.
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Dé plek waar de Titanic én NASA Amiga, grootste collectie PC-games, grootste collectie CDi en meer te vinden zijn! Officiële pagina van het enige exclusieve HomeComputerMuseum in Nederland.

07/09/2026

A little sneak peek of the Retro Center, the place for all your retro computers, refurbished computers and Commodore! Both repair and shop!

It's part of the HomeComputerMuseum, so all revenue from the Retro Center will directly support the HomeComputerMuseum.

No, the founder's edition is not for sale, it's a place holder ;)

06/09/2026

Today, we received this awesome donation. Really old calculators, including 2 Anita C/VIII.

The Anita C/VIII (also known as the Mark 8) is generally recognized as the first mass-produced commercially-available all-electronic calculator. That distinction alone makes the machine interesting, but the really fascinating part about this machine is that the designers managed to come up with a complete all-electronic four-function calculator made from tubes.

Whether these are home computers, could be debated. However, we also show computers that had influence in the way we are using the computer at home today and in the past. These calculators, especially the Anita, had influence. Meaning, these fit in the HomeComputerMuseum to show the time before a computer was in everyone's house.

A big thanks to Chantal for contacting us about her father's collection and donating these to us!

Yes, we're going to make them functional again and no, they cannot play Doom, Quake or AlleyCat ;)

The MSX was also in the donation. Maybe there's a Doom for MSX1?

04/09/2026

One of our services is repair. And this computer came in yesterday with a request to replace videocard and psu (700 watt out, 850 in).

The customer bought this computer new from a company that builds computers. About 3 years ago.

We were surprised how this company (we do not know who) messed up this build. Only 2 USB ports were accessible, the others blocked by the shield. Wrong screws for the mainboard, some of them loose, and because of using the wrong screws, the mainboard was visibly warped. Even after fixing the backplate and putting in correct screws, we couldn't align the ports.

We thought bad build quality was something from the past, but it still happens.

We advised the customer not to go to that shop again. Last picture is the end result.

03/09/2026

In today's things that come in the museum, a trainset and a display.

The train is a pretty rare as far as we've been told. These were released around the Philips Videopac series. Around a 1000 are made, but it didn't sell well and most of them ended up repainted and sold as a standard train. Though we miss one of the wagons, it's still cool to have for in the museum. A big thanks to Michiel for putting these in the museum!

The last 2 pictures is something we randomly got from Willem. A big stand with, as it seems, a touch screen LCD and there's an amp with speakers (we presume) in there as well. The very busy logos and game characters on there is not a sticker, but really printed on metal. It's made by a German company called Friendlyway, but no other information on there. It does look very cool, but I think we still miss something in the back to keep it upright. It's now leaning against a showcase for the picture.

Cool things we got today!

02/09/2026

It's not always rare and/or special computers we have.

Normally, we show all these special and/or unique historical computers if we get them, like the CompuColor II from a few days ago. We did pay for that one. Generally, many donations are more like these. This is what came in today by 2 different people. An iBook G4 with a very yellow keyboard. Broken battery. And a few general computers.

You may wonder what we do with this stuff. The Compaq may end up in the collection, but it's also a nice retro gaming machine which we can sell. Similar to the Dell which is complete and has a relatively nice case. Not sure if it works, but it either goes into the collection or will be sold as a retro gaming machine. If selling as a whole machine won't work, we'll either re-use the parts or resell the parts (in other words, bring back to the community).

And sometimes, people have memories on these old office machines. Do you?

31/08/2026

Some of you already recognized it from last week, we have a complete CompuColor II!

Last week we received the monitor and for a few days, it seemed like the keyboard was lost in the mail. But after some calls the keyboard was delivered.

The CompuColor II has been on our wish list for nearly 8 years. We never could find one for sale that was willing to send it to us.

A huge thanks goes to Steen from Denmark who contacted us. He decided that a museum would be the best option for this machine and gave us a fair deal and kept helping us when the keyboard seemed missing.

The CompuColor II is the first color home computer system with built-in color graphics and floppy-based data storage. The computer was introduced in 1977 and released in 1978. It's powered by an Intel 8080 CPU running at 2MHz. It came with either 8, 16 or 32 KB of RAM with prices ranging from $1,495 to $2,395. A similar price got an Apple II that was also color (at least, in NTSC-countries). However, the Apple II couldn't do text color, which the CompuColor II did. Also, the CompuColor II was released in the Netherlands and the Apple II wasn't.

Between 1,000 and 2,000 of these computers are produced before the company went bankrupt in 1983.

The time between announcement (1977) and production (1978), caused people to start with either a Commodore PET 2001, Tandy TRS-80 or Apple ][. The price was also pretty high for its time and the floppy drive was quite unstable. Making this a very rare computer today, as not many were sold and less survived nearly 50 years.

We're extremely happy to have this machine and will be very careful starting this one up, using a variac to slowly add more power after doing some basic checks.

Have you worked with a CompuColor II?

It was actually sold in the Netherlands

30/08/2026

48 boxes, filled to the brim with (mostly) computer stuff.. that's what we've picked up last Friday. On top of the boxes, a few computers (or cases) and a few monitors. But the biggest is boxes. Every box has a new surprise. We already found a ski-suit, a videocard with leaky capacitors, network cards, HP Jetdirect interfaces, harddisks of several sizes, 5.25" drive and so far, only a handful of boxes are opened.

So, if you wonder what we have to do next week, is checking all boxes and decide what we are going to keep and/or used, what's going to be sold or what's going to the trash.

Whatever is going to be sold from this lot, will be sold in our new shop which is open from September 25th. Soon we will share what's also being sold there, it's not just old stuff ;)

29/08/2026

A few chunky books were donated today.

We're usually holding back when taking in books, because we're already well over 4,000 manuals in the collection. However, things like this are happily taken in and added to our collection.

An original technical reference guide for the IBM PC XT/286 and one for the IBM PC AT. Also the Technical reference for PC DOS 3.30. Very cool to have these in real life.

Thanks!

27/08/2026

We should really fix these and allow for some interactivity. What shall we let these do?

26/08/2026

Guess which computer is playing Lemmings?

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Noord Koninginnewal 28
Helmond
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