Computer Museum

I would have to agree. I have been building our collection for about two years now and I have had to move everything twice. I spend a lot of time negotiating space wherever I can find it. Fortunately we are planning a new Engineering Building and my endeavors have spiked the interest of the Dean, so the plans now call for a 10K square foot Engineering museum. Since we have a running start we may get the lion's share of the space. Right now I have about 500 Sq. Ft. for storage. We have various displays in different kinds of cases around the building. Sometime in the next week I will be getting 9 vitrines from a museum project here in Arlington that the voters turned down twice. We will spot them about the building. Well, that is probably not of general interest to the list, but I just wanted to show how much of my time and energy this occupies. We have had no trouble filling the space we have with donations. We have a Sys/36 for example, some PDP/11 peripherals, a complete Four-Phase Systems IV/90 (two racks and two washtubs). I spent about $1K on eBay over a year or so getting small systems and bits and pieces such as some tab cards from WW II. We have a really interesting S-100 collection - two Altair 8800b's, an IMSAI or 2, a slug of Cromemcos and a slug of Vectors. Anyway, yes, space and $ are by far my larger concerns. Gil A. G. (Gil) Carrick, Director The Museum at CSE Coach - ICPC Programming Team University of Texas at Arlington Department of Computer Science & Engineering Box 19015, 471 S Cooper Street Arlington, TX 76019 817-272-3620 http://www.cse.uta.edu/TheMuseum at CSE/