Vintage prices dropping on eBay? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Jul 2000

Not any more - the Boston Computer Museum closed in July '99 and some of it
was 'merged' with the Science Museum. I only found out when I went to the
Children's Museum, which was next to the Computer Museum.....most
disappointed I was. All it's been replaced with is a handful of multimedia
Compaqs and some iMacs. I mailed them afterwards asking what had happened
and all they could say was the collection still exists.
Helpful, that.

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Bob Withers [mailto:bwit@pobox.com]
 Sent: 25 July 2000 14:44
 To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
 Subject: Re: Vintage prices dropping on eBay?

 At 12:21 AM 7/25/00 -0000, you wrote:
     Related
note: Anybody on the list know anything
       on DEC's first product, the Lab Module series?
       I'm interested in the operating principles of
       the things. 
You need the book _Computer Engineering: A DEC View of   Hardware Systems
 Design_, by C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, and
John E.   McNamara.  Out
 of print, but usually not too hard to find.

It's available online at

 http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Saving_Bell_Books/Computer_E
ngineering/con
tents.html
...

But this is definitely a good book to have in one's library in dead-tree form.
...

When I was in Boston a couple of years ago I bought a copy of this book at
the BCS Computer Museum gift shop.  I don't know for sure if it's new but
it certainly looks it.  If someone is in the area it might be worth
checking out.

Regards,
Bob

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