New subject: C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89

22 May 2024

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM John Foust &lt;jfoust(a)threedee.com&gt; wrote:

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  At 01:32 PM 5/22/2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
 His and his wife
Gwen's (god rest her soul as well) personal collecting and the museum at
DEC was the basis for the Boston Computer Museum, which effectively went
west and became the Computer History Museum.

 He was quite sensitive about this.  I made the same mistake, referring
 to it as the "Boston Computer Museum."  He told me:

 "Let me be clear The Computer Museum (TCM) was NEVER called the
 Boston Computer Museum...  Boston was a temporary home when computing
 passed through New England, but the city itself gave nothing to it.
 ...  As a former collector, founder, and board member of the
 Digital Computer Museum > The Computer Museum >> current Computer History
 Museum
 (a name I deplore and that exists only because of the way the Museum left
 Boston)
 I have always been a strong advocate of getting as many artifacts into as
 many
 hands as possible, and this includes selling museum artifacts when
 appropriate.
 In essence a whole industry of museums and collectors is essential."

 - John

I appreciate the clarification.

I agree that it's a shame that the CHM couldn't be called TCM.  "Computer
History Museum" is a fairly awkward name.

Sellam

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