Brian.... send us some links to some of the interactive displays....
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
Please check our web site at
http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
address:
coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: CHM gripe (was: rarest computers)
> And thusly Bob Shannon spake:
> >
> > It was painful to walk through that place and see restorable hardware
> > gutted and filled with strings of winking christmas lights.
> >
> > There was a TON of really important and rare stuff that got trashed
> > there. CADR's, a Foonly, I think even
> > the original CONS machine went there, never to see the light of day
again.
>
> I visited the Computer History Museum shortly after I moved to Boston..
It
> was *such* a disappointment. :( OOOhhh! I get to feel how warm a vacuum
> tube gets...
>
> It is pretty sad when the best part of the tour was seeing the pictures of
> important people in the computer industry at the end.....
>
> They needed to take a cue from places like the Ontario Science Centre
where
> interactivity is the focus!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bryan Pope
>
>
Received on Sun Aug 08 2004 - 13:18:38 BST