To all with interest in IBM 7090

Al, You have, to my knowledge, husbanded into existence the greatest public collection of this form of material. Again, I lend my hearty thanks to you. Software and document scanning does happen outside CHM. My own current project is an HP 2116. The documentation around that along with the software, has been most readily and copiously available directly associated with CHM, but whoever, and where ever in Oz they are, my hearty thanks to them too. I think my point was to underline that CHM is not the global repository for all computing history, no matter how fantastic a resource it is. There are other threads of the tale being told elsewhere and with different context. TNMOC doesn't currently have a public web-based documentation archive. Perfectly true. We have the old fashioned walk in and look at stuff kind, but I take the point, and understand the value of the virtual one. I know I'm talking out of school (*the thoughts and opinions of this internet troll are completely his own and not to be attributed to TNMoC, et al), but we were certainly planning for one. The grant we sought to gear up for mass scanning didn't come through. We'll keep trying. In the meantime, we've refurbed and build out our archive facilities -- and are cataloguing the current documentation and ephemera collection. We've relaunched out website to allow more contributors to get content on and off it, as well as making plug ins (such as archival access) more readily possible. At the same time we've been pushing ahead with a refresh on collections catalogue management, display refurbishment (new software gallery under construction) and yes, some software and particularly video capture. Our strands of activity twist around a bit over time, but ultimately we're rapidly maturing as an organisation thanks to a vibrant voluteer community and gentle steerage from key association officers. I could not hand on heart say when a tranche of documents might be published, unless I had hand on scanner, and did them myself. As I don't know how many pages and formats involved, all I can do is stand back, such my teeth and mumble something like, 'ooo its a big job'. I also don't know how quickly we might get written clearance from IBM to publish their old documentation -- your arrangements wouldn't cover us in UK law. But I have faith in our community that the emails will get exchanged and it will happen. As great a collection of material as you've published so far, I imagine it will become merely one of many such collections all connected together in a community which Sir Tim called the world wide web. So no biggie if it all ultimately ends up in your hands. Would be nice though if the Brits got to tell a bit of IBMs UK story, actually in a place where British school kid can come to see it, before buying a BBC keyboard key keyring in our shop :). On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 12:46 -0700, Al Kossow wrote: -- Colin