A yellow digital multimeter with red and black probes rests in the foreground over a complex background of vintage electronic circuitry, capacitors, and multicolored wiring.

Australian Computer Museum Society

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Join the Australian Computer Museum Society as we launch RetroChallenge 2026 with an evening of Pie&rsquo;s, PDPs, and hands‑on computing history 📟🎉 Explore our recent PDP 8 restoration with Scott Finneran, who will discuss the PDP-8 restoration project and thw ACMS officially Launched RetroChallenge 2026/10! Your membership or ticket helps ACMS preserve, restore, and share Australian IT artefacts and histories through our museum, interviews, and education programs. Scott has provided funding for this restoration thus far, so please help us, help him. See you there! Schedule&nbsp;6:00pm Doors open and mingle with finger foods6:35pm~ Launch of the RetroChallenge and opening by ACMS President6:45pm Talk By Scott Finneran about the PDP-8 retsoration and the challenges and more about the PDP-87:00pm We fire up the PDP-8 For the first time in public in near 40 years!7:15pm onwards mingling and museum tours for guests.8:00pm Close

Join the Australian Computer Museum Society as we launch RetroChallenge 2026 with an evening of Pie’s, PDPs, and hands‑on computing history 📟🎉 Explore our recent PDP 8 restoration with Scott Finneran, who will discuss the PDP-8 restoration project and thw ACMS officially Launched RetroChallenge 2026/10! Your membership or ticket helps ACMS preserve, restore, and share Australian IT artefacts and histories through our museum, interviews, and education programs. Scott has provided funding for this restoration thus far, so please help us, help him. See you there! Schedule 6:00pm Doors open and mingle with finger foods6:35pm~ Launch of the RetroChallenge and opening by ACMS President6:45pm Talk By Scott Finneran about the PDP-8 retsoration and the challenges and more about the PDP-87:00pm We fire up the PDP-8 For the first time in public in near 40 years!7:15pm onwards mingling and museum tours for guests.8:00pm Close

Australian Computer Museum Society

Pie's and PDP's - The RetroChallenge 2026 Launch Event

9 West St

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$18

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$10

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