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The IBM 1401 restoration website documents two working 1960s mainframes with manuals, repair notes, oral histories, schematics, photographs, software, and years of volunteer work. It feels less like a homepage than a machine room rendered in HTML.
Phil's Old Radios launched in 1995 and still documents antique radios and televisions through restoration articles, galleries, beginner guides, and practical repair information.
Herb Johnson's Retrotechnology site documents the repair, restoration, history, and reuse of 1970s and 1980s computers, with deep material on S-100 systems, Digital Research, CP/M, and vintage hardware.
John Wolff's Mechanical Music pages document organettes, roller organs, crank organs, Rolmonicas, pianola rolls, music-roll catalogs, restoration work, and digital preservation of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mechanical music.
Dead Internet Theory: A backup job can report success for months while recovery is already impossible, which is why restoration testing is part of preservation rather than an optional extra.
The Living Image Camera Museum documents ordinary twentieth-century cameras, repairs them, loads them with film, and proves preservation can mean making old machines work again instead of leaving them behind glass.
Ken's Pinball Rebel pages document real pinball machines with photos, instruction cards, restoration material, playing tips, videos and a worldwide locator for machines still operating in public.
Stephen Ostler's Radiocraft site preserves detailed restoration work on pre-1962 British radios and televisions, including 1930s sets, Bush TV22s, 405-line television and the 1990s Retrovisor.
RossVW grew from one enthusiast's restoration page into a registry and photo archive for unusual Volkswagens, including Golf Harlequins, Wild Westerner buses, limited convertibles and a 1979 Vanagon prototype.