NeXT's, museums and a dead apple monitor

Naaah, worse case as far as this list is concerned would be me in the UK or Iggy :) As for the recent banter about museums while we were researching the history of our house last week while I was on the tail end of a break because of depression and stress I had a wander round the 'computer' section of the museum - the archives section is part of the museum - and all it consisted of was an old teletype printer, a PET and a ZX81 all massively enclosed in glass cases! I'm in a quandry as to what to do when I eventually DO start exhibiting my stuff. If *I* was going to a computer museum I'd like to be able to use the machines as much as possible, but since it's all *my* stuff I'm paranoid about theft/damage etc since some of the machines took sweating blood to get here - my Lisa is a prime example. Also some of the machines are unused and still bagged up from when they were manufactured and I'm in two minds as to whether I should open 'em for educational purposes or keep 'em sealed for museum purposes. (Tony, I *know* you'd want to get them open :o)) I tinker with as much of the collection as is possible given the amount of time I've actually got spare (not a lot) for self-educational and research purposes; definitely not enough time though..... Oh yeah, I got a 1995 AppleVision 1710 monitor last weekend and I get no display on it; since it's the first one and not a later one can I safely assume it's suffered the most common fault for 1710s and I need a new Wave Deflection module? I think that's what it was called...... Recent additions to the museum site are some unopened Timex Sinclair stuff and a whole slew of adverts and reviews from a couple of early 80s UK mags - wallow in nostalgia :) s'it for now. cheers! -- Adrian Graham MCSE/ASE/MCP C CAT Limited Gubbins: http://www.ccat.co.uk (work) <http://www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk> (home) <http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk> (The Online Computer Museum) 0/0