31 Jul
2010
31 Jul
'10
6:56 p.m.
On 7/31/2010 1:41 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Why not? O cam tjhink of many people here who have one-of-a-kind amchines
(or close to that) and who run them.
simply put, I'd like to have the machines available for those who might
want to examine them in 50
years or so, and the parts are really really not available to address
repair, and having them blown up
now isn't such a good idea.
Anything one owns, you can run, back over with a truck, whatever, but
eventually it will fail and
be useless. One of a kind items without hope of finding parts run now
will have zero hope of
ever being carefully restored and run at any point in the future if you
run it now and burn it up.
And no matter how wonderful these things are we have to collect, if you
have one or two of the
more common items that function, do you really have to have 50 or 100
that function and are at
risk of loss to failure? I'm content to have a few units that I run
If I created such a "computer graphics
exploratorium" would I be
shunned by the professional museum people because I let people
actually touch the artifacts?
I think that would be wonderful, but hopefully not from one of a kind
specimens. As I said I
from time to time, and the rest
I can eventually
disperse or pass on to someone with at least some hope
they can run them.
I think in your case, you are capable of fixing things that I'd consider
toast, and that is something
I applaud. However I don't want to have to go to what I perceive to be
the lengths you do to
repair my collections' bits when they might fail.
Jim