>I can understand that those who live on the east coast may feel
>slighted by this, but when you consider that the PURPOSE of the move
>was to get the collection into a place where it could actually be
>maintained in a reasonable manner, surely you'd have to concede that
>to be better than letting it languish (and possibly meet a much more
>horrible fate) in Boston.
Don't get me wrong... I'm not against them and their purpose, but
now that they are on the wron, er, west coast, those of us without
pockets, let alone deep ones, are entirely out of luck. Since the
only times I've even been out to california were when I was on a
business trip where I presented at DECUS, or at an SF convention for
which I saved for a year, I've pretty much given up hope that I will
ever see the real collection, or any part of it, again...
I do want to be involved as much as I can be from here.
But I think we really do need an accounting of what truly happened,
if anything, to the machines which were mentioned in earlier messages.
If nothing else, to absolutely set the record straight and to stop
the various versions of events.
>preserving the historical record, and educating people about computer
>history, rather than simply acting as a thinly veiled outlet for Intel
>advertising.
I hope so... that was part of the reason I gave up on TCM a few years
ago... it *was* little more than a WinTel advertisement, as if the
computer industry started with PeeCees...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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