Opening computer museums

And the answer is the American Museum of Electricity, in Niskayuna, NY, near Albany. In the early 1960s, some of the people involved apparently were very much forward thinkers, and planned to have an entire wing of their building dedicated to computers. Other wings dealt with other branches of electricity and electronics. At the time, AME made quite a splash with their plans. They started to collect artifacts, sometimes from afar. They had big plans for a museum building, and started to line up some money. The even had a couple of magazine articles published. But, from what I can tell, they had a flawed internal structure. Essentially, they were a bunch of talk, interested in obtaining artifacts, PR and the "fun" stuff, but did a lackluster job on the business end. By the mid/late 1960s, it fell apart. to start a museum. Today, there is very little evidence left of the museum. The only artifacts I can trace are some documents, and their two electric locomotives. Some of the documents went to other museums, one of the locomotives ("Black Maria") went to trolley museum, and the other (NYC S-motor) rusts in the weeds. I very seriously wonder if they had any significant computer artifacts in the collection. In the early 60s, they were in prime territory to obtain all kinds of extremely significant pieces, as there were still first generation computers around. I doubt anything survived, however. If anyone has any info (or corrections) about AME, I would certainly like to here it. I have extremely little, and have been piecing things together. -- Will