Do you mean the Boston Computer Museum specifically, or someplace
else? I find it hard to believe that a computer museum would do
something like that!
>machines, I'd make sure that _no_ rare/classic computers got anywhere
>near that museum!
>
>Is it just me, or are most museums clueless when it comes to electronic
>exhibits? I've come across a museum that refuses to complete its PDP8
as
>the 2 cards I offered them that they were missing were made a few years
>after the the machine itself. This is a machine that was in use and
taken
>out of service BTW, so it's unlikely that all the cards were original.
>Another collection I know about has managed to misplace a PDP12, a
>PDP11/70 and all the printsets for them. Losing a board I can
understand,
>but 6' racks???
>
>>
>> One question though, wasent the Xerox 820 basically the same as the
Alto?
>
>Only in the sense that both were computers :-)
>
>They had different CPUs (z80, as against a custom 16 bit thing), mass
>storage (the Alto almost certainly had a hard disk), video (the Alto
was
>bitmapped), keyboad, OS/user interface, etc.
>
>-tony
>
>
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