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HomeComputerMuseum

Name: HomeComputerMuseum
Address: Noord Koninginnewal 28, Helmond, 5701NK, NL
Telephone: +31492747474
Price range: £
Rating: 5

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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.

24/06/2026

Today's donation is a bit weird...

We received this yellowed computer, which was brought in all the way from Luxembourgh! Upon first look, this seems a pretty standard IBM PC-clone from the 1980s. However, the ZIP-drive that was originally built-in and the manual stating it's a 286 was already a bit weird. Usually these cases were used for 8088/8086 machine. But sure, why not.

But then we opened it and that was weird. If it's a 80286 machine, where are the 16-bit ISA slots? Why is there a MFM-drive in there and why does the BIOS chip says XT-bios?

Usually, if you spend money on a 80286 PC AT-clone, you would expect to have 16 bit expansion cards in there. The 8088/8086 only could do the 8 bit ISA slots.

As far as we know, a ZIP-drive was never meant to work on a 8 bit machine. But this does have the 80286 CPU.. Is this like a weird way of keeping costs down? Anyone seen this before?

24/06/2026

Outside it's 35 degrees Celsius... and inside our museum it's 23 degrees Celsius and a lot of very cool computers for your nostalgic pleasure and for those computers you always wanted but never able to play with.

Free chilled water, cool computers and open every Wednesday until Sunday from 11:00 until 18:00.

And in July and August, we're open 7 days a week even!

See you soon!

23/06/2026

How many people have nostalgic memories of starting up OS/2 v1.10 on an IBM PS/2 Model 55SX? Let us know in the comments!

This is mid to high level computing in 1987 and real time startup of an operating system by Microsoft and IBM!

20/06/2026

While it's really warm outside, inside the museum our airco is working fine and keeping visitors and our collection cool. Including this cool and very unique computer.

This computer is painted by the Dutch artist/painter Herman Brood and is one out of 5 that we know exist. Every single one of them is uniquely painted by Herman.

Since it was a price you could win, probably around 30 years ago, this was used as intended. You didn'twin a piece of art, you won a computer! Therefore there are marks on it, showing people did use this Pentium 120 for regular things.

It's also the reason the mouse is not a real painted mouse. It has lost all its paint!

The 4th picture shows the progress in the new building, now having LED panels!

18/06/2026

We’ve been slightly quieter the last few days. There’s a lot going on in the museum right now.

While we’re still working hard on our extra building and hope to soft-open in August with the shop (still looking for some sponsors for shelving), we’re taking huge leaps as a museum.

We’re finalizing our registration in the Dutch Museum Register. The Dutch Museum Register is the national quality certification for museums in the Netherlands. It confirms that a museum meets professional standards for collection care, governance, and public service. Museums seek registration to demonstrate quality, build public trust, and strengthen their credibility with visitors, partners, and funders.
It also allows people with the Museumkaart to visit, which we’ll support as soon as we’re in the register.

Meanwhile, we’re also working on getting an annual grant to help us grow, and a grant to improve the museum (Patreons know how it’s going to look).
All of this is done to help sustain the museum, keeping it independent and accessible for everyone. For all generations and generations to come! We keep computer history alive!

Bare with us, we'll continue the daily posts soon!

16/06/2026

These 2 are more rare than you'd expect.

Having a NeXT Cube and a NeXTstation is already pretty extreme. Yes, we are aware these are not really home computers. However, we also show computers that influenced the use of home computers and NeXT has unmistakable influence on how we use computers today, as its operating system NEXTSTEP is the base of MacOS and iOS.

Why are these special you may ask? Well, because these are the expanded versions (or one of the last models). The NeXTcube is actually a NeXTcube Turbo Color and it has the Dimension video card inside, making it a very powerful (and expensive) computer for early 90s.

The NeXTstation is also the later Turbo Color version. Meaning that this one also has the 33 MHz Motorola 68040 CPU and making it the fastest version of the NeXTstation.

Have you used NeXT computers and did you use the turbo-versions? And what did you do on it?

13/06/2026

We finally have one, the Sharp x68000 in perfect condition.

Completely recapped, with 6MB of memory. This computer was on our wishlist for nearly 8 years. A computer that many people heard of and were never able to see.

The computer is from 1987, using a Motorola 68000. Ours is truly in pristine condition, even with the original SASI harddisk.

And for those who want to know, yes, this will be a playable system in the museum. Completely original!

A massive thanks to Carlos for maintaining this one and helping us getting one for the museum!

11/06/2026

Some retro computer sound ASMR with this 1983 Philips P2000C.

Have you ever seen or used this computer?

10/06/2026

Everybody has one special computer, the computer that you have the best memories of. For me, one of them is the Commodore Amiga 600. The computer that blew me away when I got it around 1995. The graphics, the sound, the small machine which was so powerful, there emulating on a Wintel computer from that time wasn't even possible.

Yes, the Amiga 600 stole my heart, after the Tandy CoCo2 started it, followed by a Philips P2000C and then a Philips NMS8255 MSX. After the Amiga 600, a CDTV and an A1200 came in, starting the collection what eventually would grow into the HomeComputerMuseum.

So, what was your special computer and story?

09/06/2026

Here's a few photos of the current warehouse of the museum. And these are the more accessible corridors even.

So that's one of the reasons we've rented an extra space as you can see on the 4th picture. We are currently painting it and making sure the electricity is everywhere we need. Tomorrow we should be having a network connection over there and hopefully by July we're moving the entire warehouse to the new location.

However, we still need shelving for the new building before we can move. The current estimate on costs for (all) shelving and storage will be € 20k. That includes re-use the current shelving. I guess we have to be creative on how to get that, perhaps start with only a part or so.

Anyway, what i do need is some extra hands to help move stuff in July. If you want to become a volunteer in July or can provide any help, please contact us and we will be eternally grateful (and more).

Adres

Noord Koninginnewal 28
Helmond
5701NK

Openingstijden

Dinsdag	11:00 - 18:00
Woensdag	11:00 - 18:00
Donderdag	11:00 - 18:00
Vrijdag	11:00 - 18:00
Zaterdag	11:00 - 18:00
Zondag	11:00 - 18:00

Telefoon

+31492747474

Website

https://linktr.ee/homecomputermuseum

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