Museums and other institutions are searching for examples of older Happily, they included the InfoAge/MARCH museum here in New Jersey. My endorsement IS expressed and implied. :)

Daniel Dern was a tech writer for Prime in the 70s. He wrote the editor/text formatter manual. He felt strongly about the human touch, so it's full of cartoons and poetry and such. It's unique in the Prime ouevre in that sense. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/prime/fdr/FDR3104_EditorAndRunoff_Jun78.pdf De

The name of the organization in Seattle is the Living Computer Museum.

On Thursday, October 3, 2013, Jim Stephens wrote: I don't think there are. There certainly is a computer museum in Seattle, but it's LCM, not CHM. (AFAIK, there's no TCHM.)

While I certainly encourage people to do that, please bear in mind that you generally can NOT expect CHM to accept most items that are proposed for donations. They are, of necessity, very selective. Unfortunately sometimes they turn down donations because they are unaware of (or underestimate) the historical significance of a particular artifact. CHM has some excellent curators, but they can't be experts on everything. If you offer to donate something that you believe has exceptional historical significance, be sure to document that in detail. Eric

From: IanK at LivingComputerMuseum.org To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Article: "9 museums that want your legacy tech" Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 00:44:42 +0000 On 10/3/13 5:06 PM, "Eric Smith" <spacewar at gmail.com> wrote: I'm also going to say that CHM is not likely to preserve the vitality of your artifact. I'm not trying to cast aspersions, but that's just not what they do: they're a more traditional archival institution. I won't promise that LCM is going to run everything, but we're going to run as much as we can (which number increases with time). (We have fellow travelers such as the Digital Den in Cambridge that share this goal.) This is not meant as disrespect to CHM - I think that in many ways we complement each other. I just ask people to consider which institution best serves how they wish for their artifact to be preserved and presented. I've toured the Revolution exhibit and I really enjoyed it. It tells some great stories. But it is *different* from what we do at LCM. By the way, sometimes a museum (such as ours) turns down an artifact for reasons other than being "unaware of ... the historical significance". Sometimes we at LCM say, "This is outside our scope." One museum just can't preserve everything, unless your budget is truly boundless. Sometimes we say, "We don't think we can restore this." Because we are a LIVING museum, we're reluctant to take in artifacts we don't think we can bring back to operating condition. Sometimes we say, "That's really cool and really rare, but what is its place in history?" Now that one is truly a hard call, but it's one that all museums must make. I worry sometimes that artifacts from failed product lines don't get the representation they need, and I push for those that I think tell meaningful stories. But if I can't create a meaningful story for an artifact, I can't endorse its presence in a *living* museum. But lines must be drawn - only so many dollars, only so any person-hours, only so many square feet/meters. That's a dilemma for all museums of all kinds. I do think some people think we're going to save everything from every time, and that hasn't been a truth for any aspect of history or museology. With computer technology we have a huge corpus on which to draw, given the enormous productive output of the industry, and there aren't enough dollars, hours or squares to preserve it all. An embarrassment of riches, so to speak.... -- Ian

The main page of the article that popped up on my screen said "The Computer History Museum" in Seattle. And that someone from Computerworld had looked to donate to them. Maybe an artifact of my browser (running adblock plus) or just an editor got his original meaning. I really think it is unfortunate there are two TCHM's (if there are, have not read the article). because I've recommended and plan to vector all I have of interest to the Mountain View one. My recommendation to others didn't include there might be confusion on that. Jim On 10/3/2013 11:10 AM, Dennis Boone wrote: