The Computer Museum History Center Collections Policy

Megan wrote: I can understand that those who live on the east coast may feel slighted by this, but when you consider that the PURPOSE of the move was to get the collection into a place where it could actually be maintained in a reasonable manner, surely you'd have to concede that to be better than letting it languish (and possibly meet a much more horrible fate) in Boston. It will obviously take some time for TCMHC to win the trust of those who felt betrayed by the actions of TCM. But in all fairness I think that their intentions are better judged by their recent actions than those taken by TCM years ago. TCMHC seems genuinely concerned about preserving the historical record, and educating people about computer history, rather than simply acting as a thinly veiled outlet for Intel advertising. This is, for instance, demonstrated by such things as their IBM 1620 restoration project. There is a lot of interest in restoring other systems as well, but there aren't enough resources to do multiple systems at once.