8 Aug
2004
8 Aug
'04
6:18 a.m.
Brian.... send us some links to some of the interactive displays....
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
Please check our web site at
http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
address:
coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope(a)wordstock.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: CHM gripe (was: rarest computers)
And thusly Bob Shannon spake:
>
> It was painful to walk through that place and see restorable hardware
> gutted and filled with strings of winking christmas lights.
>
> There was a TON of really important and rare stuff that got trashed
> there. CADR's, a Foonly, I think even
> the original CONS machine went there, never to see the light of day
again.
I visited the Computer History Museum shortly after I moved to Boston..
It
was *such* a disappointment. :( OOOhhh! I get to
feel how warm a vacuum
tube gets...
It is pretty sad when the best part of the tour was seeing the pictures of
important people in the computer industry at the end.....
They needed to take a cue from places like the Ontario Science Centre
where
interactivity is the focus!!
Cheers,
Bryan Pope