[cctalk] Re: LCM auction

I used to think museums were the only right place for historic items, and despite being a collector myself, I used to kind of not love things disappearing into private collections.  But I realize now private collections are a fairly efficient, cost effective and safe way for things to be preserved.  Museums often end up storing a lot of what they have anyway so it's not like it's any more accessible.  Plus with private collections artifacts are distributed all over the place, so things survive despite disasters here and there.Sent from my Galaxy -------- Original message --------From: Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Date: 2024-08-29 9:04 a.m. (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Cc: Mike Katz <bitwiz(a)12bitsbest.com> Subject: [cctalk] Re: LCM auction Unless the museum has an large enough endowment to take care of itself and grow it will fail.I'm sure even the Smithsonian discards items that is can no longer afford to house.  And that is after it has sat in storage for years.Whether publicly, privately or government funded expenses and the need for space and man power always increase.Maybe we need a new law, we will call it Allen's law and it is directly related to Moore's law.  As computers become obsolete faster and faster the space, time and money to preserve them increases respectively.On 8/29/2024 10:48 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:>>> On Aug 29, 2024, at 10:45 AM, John Foust via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:>>>> At 07:11 AM 8/29/2024, cz via cctalk wrote:>>> The purpose of a museum is to destroy history.>> Ridiculous.  Do the math.  If there was a computer so magical and historically>> significant because only 100 of them were made, and 95 of them were scrapped long>> ago by individual and corporate owners, and one made it into a "museum,">> why aren't you equally blaming the people who tossed the 95?  At least>> the museum tried to save it.> Did it, though?  The attempt may have been made by the collector who donated it, and the museum may be the one who reneged on the commitment to preserve.>> paul>