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Keeping the doors open and the light on at a private museum of over 1,400 vintage computers and calculators may be hard work, but for the volunteers who run the Club PEEK & POKE computer museum it is

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PEEK & POKE Computer Museum

Keeping the doors open and the light on at a private museum of over 1,400 vintage computers and calculators may be hard work, but for the volunteers...

by David Mark Erickson in Croatia on 09/11/2009

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