I think you
have to consider what damage could be done. And that depeneds
-- a lot -- on the artefact. A vitage aeroplane is likely to be totally
destroyed if it crashes, so you probably don't want to fly it very often.
The local flying club begs to differ:
http://airforcecenter.ch/index.php?id=25&L=1
IIRC there are 8 airworthy Junkers Ju-52 still around. The Airforce
Center D??bendorf (near Z??rich) has 6 of them and they are actively flying
them quite a bit. There regular tourist tours around Switzerland and you
can even charter them, e.g. for an event.
Well, if they're preapred to fly an essentially irreplacable aircraft,
whioch could be totally destroyed if soemthing fials (of course they do a
lot of checks -- they have to by law -- but things can still fail), and
since running the aeroplane will casue wear on moving parts (and thus
damage the artefact) then IMHO a computer museum has no excvuse whatsover
not to run a much more oommon classic computer ,at least from time to time.
-tony