To all with interest in IBM 7090

In article <50943138BDD14822BE82F8C87DE82B25 at MailBox>, "Rod Smallwood" <rodsmallwood at btconnect.com> writes: What you're describing isn't a museum; it's a place like "Rick's Restorations" <http://www.ricksrestorations.com/>. A museum, like any organization, has a fixed amount of funds and labor. Why would they spend time restoring something that would not be displayed? Time and money spent on a purposeless activity like that is time and money not spent on something that actually matters to the museum. Speaking for myself, I have entered a phase familiar to anyone who has started one of these computer museums: I am starting to actively refuse or ignore certain kinds of items. You can't collect everything and you have to focus on your core mission. Strictly speaking, I have probably already gone too far away from my core mission (computer graphics) in a few instances. The CHM commonly refuses items these days as it already has an extensive collection and most items that are offered are either already in their collection, or aren't a significant enough part of computing history for them to add it to their collection. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>