7 Apr
2013
7 Apr
'13
1:50 p.m.
Not sure I am doing it right, my searches come up empty. I entered "Computer
Collection" in Collection Name, and "Computer" under Subject.
By the way I don't have anything that is North West England specific unfortunately,
except perhaps some artefacts from the Manchester University Dataflow project. The rest is
DEC stuff, and a Teletype(!). I doubt MOSI would be interested in most of this.
Regards
Rob
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Subject: Re[2]: Who might want my collections (but not yet!)?
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From: "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org>
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Sent: 07/04/2013 00:40:26
Subject: Re: Who might want my collections (but not yet!)?
On 4/6/13 3:29 PM, Sam O'nella wrote:
Whilst I am not acting on behalf of MOSI. Manchester, I am pretty sure from
conversations I have had with Curatorial staff that they have very specific
collection goals. That is any exhibit should help tell the story of computing
either North West England, either as part of another industry, or as an
Industry in its own right. Display space and storage space is as much a
problem for them as for most home collectors (they also have static steam
engines, steam locomotives and aeroplanes). So Rob if you have anything
which might fulfils those goals let me know and I'll give you a contact.
I am personally very sad that they do have equipment which isn't on show
but which has vanished from Computing "in the wild", and which would tell
a story about computing in the northwest UK, so go here and enter
"Computer":-
http://emu.msim.org.uk/htmlmn/collections/online/search.php?type=Objec
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in the subject search, and not whats in storage.... Folks may be able to help know what museums are
close by.
Museums are not landfills.
Think about the fact that the longer the common stuff is around the
more likely it will be that an artifact will already have been acquired
for a collection.
It is better to be thinking about finding other collectors than hoping
a museum is going to want your stuff at some time in the indefinite
future.
If you really do have something rare enough a collecting institution
would be interested in it, work out the details ahead of time.