On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:53:42PM -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Reuben Reyes wrote:
> > >Just a quick email to let you know the Goodwill Computerworks Museum
> > >will be open beginning this Saturday, August 18th. For those of you
> > >who haven't visited in a while, we've expanded the museum and it now
> > >includes over 100 machines! From 1977 to recent years, from the
> > >smallest handheld computers to a Cray EL94, we have quite an array of
> > >computer history.
> How the hell does a Cray get donated to Goodwill!? What a shame.
Exactly. This GWCW is the one I referred to in my earlier post.
> Goodwill should be trying to sell the items it gets to raise money for the
> poor rather than maintaining a computer museum. That doesn't feed &
> cloth people last I checked.
Actually it does sell quite a bit of items, but they keep select stuff
as part of their vintage-items museum.
Bill
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Received on Sat Aug 19 2000 - 06:09:46 BST