19 Jun
2009
19 Jun
'09
2:12 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:04 PM
Subject: [personal] Re: Stanford's PDP-6 ( was Re: Hardware Hobbyists vs.
EmulatorJockeys)
Plead, beg, make the best case for recovery they can to the owner, offer to
do the work of removal at no cost to the owner, Etc.
Mike.
The real point
is that the computer museum people knew of its existence
and
yet failed in their duty to recover and save it after the DECUS event.
What SHOULD they do when they know of existence of a machine, and the
OWNER of the machine intends to scrap it rather than give it to the
museum?
What do you do?