22 Jan
2010
22 Jan
'10
2:18 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dan Roganti
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:03 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: Museum for sale
----- Rich Alderson wrote:
I would consider Robert Krten's pdp12.org to be an on-line museum,
Such a collection is quite admirable and valuable.
But using the term "online museum" just *continues* to depreciate the
meaning of a museum.
Anyone can make a website, take photos, copy documentation, etc, etc,
and then call it an online museum.
Then who's to say that you ever have to own the equipment anymore in
the first place ?
...which is not what we're talking about here. These are real machines, most
in operating condition. They are displayed with contextual material. The difference is
that I don't have to get on an airplane. Think of it as teleconferencing without an
PowerPoint. Yes, there may be times I *want* to get on an airplane and touch the machine
myself - but how many brick-and-mortar museums let you touch the exhibits anyway?
The point of some of the statements on this thread is that the concept of
"museum" is being transformed (as are many longstanding definitions) by the
technology we are in fact preserving! How delightfully self-referent.... -- Ian