20 Oct
2010
20 Oct
'10
3:16 a.m.
From my perspective museums are icebergs. Most of what
they have can't be
seen. Their idea is to put items into storage in whatever
condition they
arrived in and do nothing unless the item can form part of a display.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Rich Alderson
Sent: 19 October 2010 18:54
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: Nonsense about museums and libraries [was RE: Xerox Alto onebay
(not mine!)]
From: Jos Dreesen
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 9:39 PM
On 10/18/2010 11:18 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
> But all,*all*, of them have more things in very
careful storage than you
> will ever see unless you go to work for them--and until you have been
> properly trained in their handling, you'll never lay hand on any of the
> things around you.
Luckily not all museums are strict in this regard, or
I would not have
been able to create my ETH Lilith emulator....
I was enough for them to know I had a working one, and had reliably
returned documentation lend to me by the ETH, to lend to me several of
the system disks.
Clearly, someone decided that you had been properly trained! ;-)
Seriously, each museum makes that determination by its own criteria--but
each museum makes that determination.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
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