Many items in the collection are in fully working condition and are available for demonstrations.

[4] The inventory primarily consists of decommissioned systems and their components, as well as various documents such as manuals.

For instance, the Karlsruhe University donated an extensive program collection on punched tape along with a PDP-11/10 equipped with a vector graphics unit.

A Mincal-523 computing system originated from the Federal Institute of Hydrology in Koblenz.

[5] It was acquired in a non-functional state and restored to working order through reverse engineering.