Goodwill Computer Store Austin, TX

See comment below: On 5 Nov 2001 at 7:03, Sellam Ismail wrote: Actually they are just closing it until they figure out a way to help prevent stuff like this from happening again (moving a rotating subset of the display out front where it can be watched, enclosing the entire collection instead of just the "small" stuff, etc). It was also more than the loss of the Famicon, various other things have gone missing since the museum opened, so it isn't just a knee-jerk reaction by Jaime. Though I do covet some of the items in the museum, there is at least one positive thing that having it at Goodwill has over it being in the hands of a private collector, and that is that the items are available for many more people to "enjoy". Now they might not get as much as someone on this list who can "truely appreciate" it, but a great many people have seen it and had positive experiences. I think having something like this is very good at raising the awareness amongst people that these old computers aren't purely boat anchors. A few of the systems there were saved from the scrapper by the virtue of the person seeing the museum and donating versus junking the systems. So as was discussed ad-nauseum previously, I think that overall the Goodwill Computer Works museum is a net positive for classic computing. They are not perfect, but a great deal more of these systems would be landfill right now had it not been for their efforts. If anyone is ever in Austin, I encourage you to check it out (though you might want to drop me or Bill an email first to make sure it's open). George