Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar
Summary
Computer History Museum documents a dramatic discovery of Cold War-era Eastern Bloc computers in a Castrop-Raüxel, Germany warehouse. The piece details a massive cataloging effort, highlights a wide range of artifacts from 1930s to the 1980s (including IBM, Librascope, TRICE, Telefunken, and more), and notes the extensive logistics required to move the collection to CHM in California, as well as some challenges encountered during the fieldwork.