7 Aug
2012
7 Aug
'12
12:56 p.m.
Museums in general and computer ones in particular suffer from 'Iceberg
Syndrome' Seventy five percent of what they are you can't see.
That strikes me as a low estiamte.
They are driven to hoard anything they can get their hands on and just let
it rot away in storage. They only restore items that they think will attract
visitors.
I have a book on clock repair which starts out by saying that just about
the worst thing you can do with an old clock (not a'famous maker') is
tyo give it to a museum where it will never tick again. FWIW, I did not
write said book, and I read it after I had formed my own simialr views...
Hands up all of those who have made an equipment
donation to a museum and
have seen it restored and displayed in working condition. Does anybody know
I've dontated a few artefacts and regretted it .They were never
displayed, certainly never restored. In fact they were probably lost.
-tony