19 Aug
2008
19 Aug
'08
11:42 a.m.
>>>> "Jules" == Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> writes:
Jules> William Donzelli wrote:
>> Trivia! What was to be the first museum to
feature computers as a
>> major portion of the collection?
> Oops, forgot me quotes. "first".
Jules> Ha ha! I think the Bletchley Park one started up sometime in
Jules> '92 or '93, but was little more than a big room stuffed full
Jules> of kit - with a few "hands on" systems - for years. I very
Jules> much doubt it was the first world-wide...
Jules> Mind you - trick question? Your "was to be" didn't escape me -
Jules> was there something years ago that never made it out of the
Jules> planning stage?
Good question.
An early one is the computer museum that DEC built (Gordon Bell's
idea?) in its Marlborough plant. That was in the 1980s I think.
Later that became the Boston computer museum, which in fairly short
order was run into the ground.
Too bad. I saw the Marlborough version and it had some neat stuff.
One of the oddball items was a part of the Goodyear STARAN.
paul