Living Computer Museum

-restoration-whats-the-difference/ Al, I guess it depends on your perspective and what you think museums are there for. Surely there has to be a balance between "preserving" and "educating" and that is so hard to achieve. What can your "typical" visitor learn by looking at a preserved mainframe? No matter what you do I don't believe that you give more than an inkling of what computing was like in the 1950's, 60's or 70's unless you have running equipment. I bet that even those of whose who were part of it have forgotten many of the things we did. I remember recently being surprised when watching an historic film about early computing at Cambridge University (the UK Cambridge) to see that a program was double keyed, because data prep time was so much cheaper than computer time. Yet when I started it was routine to double key all data. Does any one double key data these days? Dave