2 Sep
2008
2 Sep
'08
11:31 p.m.
Not really. Johnniac, WISC, and the G15 are the
closest to being complete
but none would be a restoration candidate since current CHM restoration
guidelines state that a restoration would not occur if a machine is one of
a kind, or there is only one in the collection (G15).
I can certainly understand the one-of-a-kind constraint, but if
another REAL museum gets a similar machine, do you think CHM would
change its mind? For example, if the Smithsonian Institution were to
own the G-15 it currently has on (permanent) loan, would that count,
knowing that they will never restore it?
If the drum is good, a G-15 probably would not be all that hard to get
running. Providing birds did not shit all over it.
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Will