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

tomshardware.com 2026-06-14 Mark Tyson

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Technologies:mainframes minicomputers disk drives line printers punch cards magnetic tape floppy disks paper tape

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Computer History Museum Germany World War II artifacts Retro computing Digital heritage Museum collection Electronics Data storage Computing history Archaeology of technology Vintage computers Historical artifacts

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The Computer History Museum (CHM) recently recovered a significant trove of computing artifacts from an abandoned warehouse in Castrop-Rauxel, North West Germany, containing over 2,000 items spanning ... Read original →

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