The Cultural Association 8 Bit Inside (www.8bitinside.com) is a non-profit organization that deals with Retrocomputing,

It was established on February 26, 2016 by a group of engineers and enthusiasts of electronics, information technology and telecommunications.

The purpose of the Association is to recover and keep working old PCs, old game consoles, peripherals and devices for computer music, with the ultimate aim of creating a Museum, dedicated to those who want to deepen and experience directly how information technology has evolved over time and telecommunications.

To date, the Association has a collection of about 1500 pieces that cover a period of time ranging from the end of the 70s to the present day and continues to receive donations from companies that decommission and dispose of their machinery, from individuals who donate the computer or console that they have kept and by collectors who adhere to the Association. The recovery activity is performed by the Association's volunteers. The recovered devices are cataloged and photographed, inserted in our Database which can be consulted through the website of the M I C R O Museum (Interactive Computer Museum of Rome) and, when possible, restored and made perfectly functional either by replacing any compromised HW parts or by restoring the original SW. .

On this site we have collected the results of years of research, information, images, documents, manuals with the aim of making them accessible to all enthusiasts.

Although "8 Bit Inside" refers to 8-bit technology, we don't just focus on 8-bit devices, but on every machine from the era before Intel x86 architecture became the de facto standard. Furthermore, our attention goes to all devices that have a technological interest for whatever reason: the first of its kind (eg the Apple Newton), a particular design (eg the Olivetti Quaderno) or other.

For information, you can contact us at the email address info@8bitinside.com.

To offer your support, please consult the page Sostieni.

According to the Statute, the primary purpose of the Association is the protection, promotion and enhancement of things of artistic and historical interest, in relation to the creation, maintenance and development of the M I C R O Museum (Interactive Computer Museum of Rome).

The activities that the Association, in pursuit of the corporate purpose, carries out are, by way of example and not limited to:

• Preserve, increase, maintain and maintain the heritage of over 1500 pieces of the collection of computers, game consoles, networking devices, software, computer music devices, peripherals and documentation from the 70s to today, technological-historical heritage of national and international importance with many devices that represent milestones in the history of information technology;
• Work to ensure that a Museum of Electronics, Information Technology and Telecommunications is established within the Municipality or Province of Rome, possibly open to the public for the enjoyment of the aforementioned assets;
• Organize, maintain and manage the aforementioned Museum, in order to maintain, preserve, increase and make the aforementioned collection available to the public, as well as the collections of any other Members or third parties who are not Members who bring their collection on loan for use to the Association of material belonging to the same technological field;
• Retrieve knowledge and material relating to the History of Electronics, Information Technology and Telecommunications;
• Restoring the aforesaid material;
• Preserve, share and disseminate the aforementioned knowledge and the aforementioned material.

Our goal, in addition to making known the evolution of technology and the history of the people who have accomplished it, is to create a real museum starting from the collection and from the currently only virtual museum present on the net and in social networks.

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