Gordon Bell paper on the history of CHM

Hi Al I'm glad that someone had the sense to not toss out the old junk. " Historian Mike Williams of the University of Calgary said, "Looking at a cannibalized piece of the ENIAC, like the one at the museum, doesn't do much for me. Why not just videotape everything and throw the junk out?" " To save even a piece of an ENIAC has great value to one trying to understand the design methods used at that time. One thing to realize is that each persons opinion on what should be saved is quite different. The loss of things like the Johniac machine would have been truly beyond my imagination of what should be save and what should be scrapped. The words that come to mind are " What were they thinking they were doing?" On a separate subject, I have an opinion of what the CHM lacks( we all have an opinion ). They seem to lack connections. The machines have a quick description of each machine but there is little more for the connections between people and ideas that brought the entire thing together. It would be too much to have at each exhibit but there should be some way to reference and tie things together. I'm not really sure how it would be done. Maybe a few current day machines with search engines to access more in depth information. Just my thoughts Dwight