individual
PCBs/modules? How would you handle the case of taking 2
effectively identical machines acquired at differnet times and using
parts from bvth to make one working example, or would a museum never do
that? (If the latter, then I consider the policy to be broken!).
If it were run by college administrators, then the policy would be to cut
up the rarer one to use as parts for the common one. Such as filching
keys from a console terminal to repair an IBM Selectric B.
:-(
I was of course thinking of the more sensible situation of either taking
parts from a more common (even if still quite rare) device to fix up a
very rare one, or taking 2 examples of a rare machine, both not working,
and making a working one from them.
It's an interesting question whether you should use new parts (from
RS/Farnell/Digikey/wherever) or parts taken from contemorary machines to
fix up a classic computer, if both are available. Personally, I use new
parts if I can, simply becuae they are likely to be more reliable. I am
not sure what a museum would do, though. I would guess consider each case
separately?
-tony