29 Jul
2010
29 Jul
'10
2:11 p.m.
On 7/29/10 4:59 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Yebbut...how does that differ, realistically, from repairs made to the
system during its service life?
Let's just say for the sake of argument that a PDP-11/24 is an
extremely rare and very old system. Let's say I have one, I'm the
original owner, it was in production use until last month. Over its
years of service, various repairs had been made, including "bleaching"
(though it was not my impression that the retr0brite process is
"bleaching") the front panel which had yellowed, and perhaps repainting
its rack that got scratched up. Does this somehow make it uninteresting
for the museum?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Do they advise
the collector on how
best to preserve/conserve their objects but not object if the
collector does things that they wouldn't do?
I think you are the first person to ever ask us this.
The issue would only come up if the objects were offered for donation or
loan. If an object has been repainted or bleached, we'd have to have a
pretty strong case presented for adding it to our permanent collection.