12 Nov
2005
12 Nov
'05
1:57 p.m.
Julian Wolfe wrote:
Well in any case, they could have chosen a much better
example, it's all
yellowed and nasty, and they're making it worse with that fluorescent light.
So given the choice, what lighting *is* good?
I'm just thinking that we might have to replace lighting at the museum
one day - so maybe keeping other options in mind is a good idea,
providing they're not horribly expensive....
I bet it's just a VAX chassis someone threw in the
dumpster from this list.
There's probably not even anything in it, except a broken TK50.
Hmm, not so sure. We certainly wouldn't want to fleece the public by
putting an empty machine on display without *saying* it was just a case,
even if the public never got to see the insides (although of course we
*want* people to ask and be interested in machine innards as well as
outside appearance!)
I expect most museums are the same though - even if the item's stuck in
a glass case, it still seems wrong for it to just be a shell rather than
a complete system unless explicitly stated as such to the public.
cheers
Jules