1 Feb
2024
1 Feb
'24
3:12 p.m.
On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 10:08, Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Generally I have found that access to special collections is conditional
on
There's a term for that, I think it's called "hoarding."
It's very unfortunate that museums run the range from institutions
dedicated to preservation to, well, just a large collection that someone
has decided to charge access for.
-Henry
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:
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>> On Jan 31, 2024, at 7:16 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <
> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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.