7 Apr
2013
7 Apr
'13
7:34 p.m.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Rob Jarratt" <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: 07/04/2013 18:50:20
Subject: RE: Re[2]: Who might want my collections (but not yet!)?
Not sure I am doing it right, my searches come up
empty. I entered
"Computer Collection" in Collection Name, and "Computer" under
Subject.
Sorry, don't touch the "collections" box, just put
"computer" into the
"Object Summary" box. It should then become obvious as to why you leave
collections blank...
By the way I don't have anything that is North West
England specific
unfortunately, except perhaps some artefacts from the Manchester
University Dataflow project.
The DataFlow project probably fits with the collections policy. Oddly
Pete Lomas of Norcott Technologies who designed the Raspberry PI
Hardware worked on the Dataflow project...
The rest is DEC stuff, and a Teletype(!). I doubt MOSI
would be
interested in most of this.
If it has Northwest connections then it may be of interest. So I know
GEC Althsom who designed the Metrolink trams were a big DEC house, as
were BNFL , so kit with connections to these may be of interest...
Regards
Rob
Dave
G4UGM
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
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Sent: 07 April 2013 17:40
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re[2]: Who might want my collections (but not yet!)?
------ Original Message ------
From: "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Sent: 07/04/2013 00:40:26
Subject: Re: Who might want my collections (but not yet!)?
On 4/6/13 3:29 PM, Sam O'nella wrote:
acquired
Folks may be able to help know what museums are
close by.
Museums are not landfills.
Think about the fact that the longer the common stuff is around the
more likely it will be that an artifact will already have been for a collection.
It is better to be thinking about finding other collectors than
hoping
a museum is going to want your stuff at some time
in the indefinite
future.
If you really do have something rare enough a collecting institution
would be interested in it, work out the details ahead of time.
Whilst I am not acting on behalf of MOSI. Manchester, I am pretty
sure from
conversations I have had with Curatorial staff that they have very
specific
collection goals. That is any exhibit should help tell the story of
computing
either North West England, either as part of another industry, or as
an
Industry in its own right. Display space and storage space is as much
a
problem for them as for most home collectors (they also have static
steam
engines, steam locomotives and aeroplanes). So Rob if you have
anything
which might fulfils those goals let me know and I'll give you a
contact.
I am personally very sad that they do have equipment which isn't on
show
but which has vanished from Computing "in the wild", and which would
tell
a story about computing in the northwest UK, so go here and enter
"Computer":-
http://emu.msim.org.uk/htmlmn/collections/online/search.php?type=Objec
t
in the subject search, and not whats in storage....