1 Feb
2024
1 Feb
'24
6:22 p.m.
Or, they may let you for perhaps a donation (equipment or $$$) - just a thought.
Only my $0.02,
-John
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, 1 February, 2024 10:08
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com>om>; Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal
On Feb 1, 2024, at 9:52 AM, Henry Bent via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 09:37, Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Generally I have found that access to special collections is
conditional on having credentials that the museum is willing to
accept. In that case I can imagine that the museum might be willing
to allow inspection, perhaps supervised, but that they would not be
willing to allow their media to be run through a punched tape reader
because they were concerned about the possibility for damage. Did you
talk to them about the possibility of some sort of optical scanning?
Yes, a standard optical paper tape reader. And the proposal was to have their staff
supervise or operate, with us supplying the equipment and delivering the results.
paul
On Jan 31, 2024, at 7:16 PM, Bill Degnan via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
The Enter museum in Switzerland has a nice library of docs. I found
that museum to be chock full of interesting German and other
computers. Worth the trip.
Bill
Is any of that online?
One frustrating thing about various museums is that they have stuff,
but you can't access it. For example, I know a museum with a
collection of 1950s software on punched tape, but they refuse access
to it for reading it.