Are the computers at a museum run at all? How much of an old
computer/mainframe is repairable with modern components and how much is
custom equipment that needs spares? I would think the museums have static
displays and are mostly worried about them being complete, but not worried
about functionality. Over the years how many people are still around who can
operate, repair, or maintain 50's era computers? Power requirements would
also be a pain for the older models.
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: Collection policy was Re: No space for vinatge computers in
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> On Wed, 21 May 2003, Hans B Pufal wrote:
>
> > My favorite argument is that if the dump the duplicate argument had won
> > the day we would most probably have dumped one of our two PDP-9's and in
> > that case would probably never have gotten one to operational state.
>
> This is one of the reasons why I keep at least two of everything.
>
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