Classic computers endangered!

[Christian Corti]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Richard wrote:
> Well, this part is just plain uninfomed:
>
> 	"Science museums around the world have long collected computing
> 	kit. But there are only three institutions actively growing
> 	collections of outdated computers and restoring them to working
> 	order: the UK's National Museum of Computing (NMOC) at Bletchley
> 	Park; the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley; and the Heinz
> 	Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Padaborn, Germany."
>
> Only three?  I can name a half-dozen more off the top of my head
> without even googling.

And at least the HNF does not restore/run their machines, they don't even 
display them in a logical manner (and it's Paderborn, not Padaborn ;-))

OTOH our little museum has been collecting/restoring etc. for much 
over ten years now. And of course, almost everything on display is 
functional (people don't want to see dead junk, they are much more 
impressed by a demonstration).

Christian