12 Apr
2013
12 Apr
'13
7:53 a.m.
http://www.houstoncomputermuseum.org/index.html
This one is kind of strange, worded oddly for American company, no address
or phone number. Is anyone familiar with this museum?
Cindy Croxton
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12 Apr
12 Apr
8:41 a.m.
At 09:53 AM 4/12/2013, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote:
http://www.houstoncomputermuseum.org/index.html
This one is kind of strange, worded oddly for American company, no address
or phone number. Is anyone familiar with this museum?
There are other Houstons, but this one does say it's in Texas. The domain
owner seems connected to Turkey. The web hosting is in Leeds, England.
- John
9:14 a.m.
On 12/04/2013 15:53, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote:
http://www.houstoncomputermuseum.org/index.html
This one is kind of strange, worded oddly for American company, no address
or phone number. Is anyone familiar with this museum?
Cindy Croxton
I found this as well...
http://www.hlctm.org/
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9:15 a.m.
On 4/12/13 7:53 AM, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote:
http://www.houstoncomputermuseum.org/index.html
This one is kind of strange, worded oddly for American company, no address
or phone number. Is anyone familiar with this museum?
John Keys had a collection by that name. He posted here as "thecman" but the
last post was over three years ago.
9:30 a.m.
At 11:15 AM 4/12/2013, Al Kossow wrote:
John Keys had a collection by that name. He posted here
as "thecman" but the
last post was over three years ago.
One address associated with him is in a residential neighborhood,
the other for the 501c3 is at this business "park" http://goo.gl/maps/Rp0l4 .
There's another web for him, too:
<http://www.hlctm.org/index.htm>http://www.hlctm.org/index.htm
- John
9:49 a.m.
Yes its John Keys' museum. He's been at the vintage computer festival southwest
the last few years with some of his pretty vast collection. I haven't been to the
actual museum yet.
It may be a bit vague since its primarily just him and his wife handling the operation.
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Subject: Houston Computer Museum
http://www.houstoncomputermuseum.org/index.html
This one is kind of strange, worded oddly for American company, no address
or phone number. Is anyone familiar with this museum?
Cindy Croxton
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1:03 p.m.
To the contrary here though. He does have a public museum/building with the majority on
display.
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Subject: Re: Houston Computer Museum
Yes its John Keys' museum.
Nothing against John, but this is exactly what I ranted about in the
recent re: Mulling a museum thread. Anybody can take their private
collection, open a web site, and say, "Look, I have a museum." Umm, no,
you don't.
1:39 p.m.
I haven't seen it no, but from our conversations it sounded like it was within the
last year or two that this building and the 4 digit/mo bills associated with it were
obtained. I just wasn't going to go into those details for him but it definitely
sounds like a large risk he took on.
It could still be more a storage space look than museum though depending on how stuff is
arranged. I can't recall if he registered it as a nonprofit or not but he has lucked
out with a few well off investors donating to keep it up.
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To the contrary here though. He does have a public
museum/building with the majority on display.
Have you seen that first-hand? Last I heard, there were a couple of
display cases in a store front.
If I'm wrong, then that's a good thing (this time!)
1:15 p.m.
On 4/12/13 8:53 AM, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote:
http://www.houstoncomputermuseum.org/index.html
This one is kind of strange, worded oddly for American company, no address
or phone number. Is anyone familiar with this museum?
Cindy Croxton
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Weird... almost looks like one of the domain 'placeholder' pages. No
idea if it's for real or not.
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Land Computer Service
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13 Apr
13 Apr
8:49 a.m.
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Sent: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 10:22 am
Subject: Houston Computer Museum
http://www.houstoncomputermuseum.org/index.html
This one is kind of strange, worded oddly for American company, no
address
or phone number. Is anyone familiar with this museum?
Cindy Croxton
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FYI
The above URL was losted by the museum a few years ago because of a
GoDaddy error. The correct URL is www.hlctm.org and we are on facebook,
youtube, and twitter.
John Keys
Houston Computer Museum
9:49 p.m.
On 4/13/13 9:49 AM, jthecman at netscape.net wrote:
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Sent: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 10:22 am
Subject: Houston Computer Museum
http://www.houstoncomputermuseum.org/index.html
This one is kind of strange, worded oddly for American company, no address
or phone number. Is anyone familiar with this museum?
Cindy Croxton
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FYI
The above URL was losted by the museum a few years ago because of a
GoDaddy error. The correct URL is www.hlctm.org and we are on facebook,
youtube, and twitter.
John Keys
Houston Computer Museum
This was posted sometime in 2009...
"We had to stop walk-in showings for now at our current location because
of construction."
4 years of construction?? Wow, this must be going to be along the lines
of Smithsonian when it's finished. :)) J/K
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Land Computer Service
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