1 Oct
2009
1 Oct
'09
7:57 a.m.
In article <4AC46593.7000103 at philpem.me.uk>,
Philip Pemberton <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk> writes:
the-danger-list.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech>
Well, this part is just plain uninfomed:
"Science museums around the world have long collected computing
kit. But there are only three institutions actively growing
collections of outdated computers and restoring them to working
order: the UK's National Museum of Computing (NMOC) at Bletchley
Park; the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley; and the Heinz
Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Padaborn, Germany."
Only three? I can name a half-dozen more off the top of my head
without even googling.
Speaking of which, I need to visit that museum in Montana before it
gets too cold.
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Murray McCullough wrote:
> I read an article today in 'New Scientist' entitled 'Innovation:
Classic
> computers on the danger list' with Tom Simonite writing: "Pretty much
every
> adult alive today has seen computers change the world, but we are doing
> precious little to celebrate the influence of the computers and software
> that created our society." Indeed! Are we failing to preserve the earliest
> part of microcomputing history? Will classiccmp.org discuss early ucomputer
s
in 5 yrs., 10
yrs.?
Here's a link to (what appears to be) the article in question:
<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17805-innovation-classic-computers-on-