Re: C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89 - cctalk

22 May 2024

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