5 Aug
2004
5 Aug
'04
2:11 p.m.
Quoth Bob Shannon:
Painful, but not nearly as bad as my experiances with
Oliver Strimple
when he was the curator of the
(defunct) Boston Computer Museum.
When I told him I collected and 'restored to working condition'
minicomputers from the 1960's (and
wanted to display them as his museum) he scoffed at the very idea of
'restoration to working condition'.
It was painful to walk through that place and see restorable hardware
gutted and filled with strings of winking christmas lights.
Aiya! A museum curator that has no love for the items collected shouldn't
be a bloody museum curator. :(
There was a TON of really important and rare stuff
that got trashed
there. CADR's, a Foonly, I think even
the original CONS machine went there, never to see the light of day again.
What became of the Boston Computer Museum, anyway? And what happened to
their collection, such as it was?
-O.-