Unless the museum has an large enough endowment to take care of itself
and grow it will fail.
I'm sure even the Smithsonian discards items that is can no longer
afford to house. And that is after it has sat in storage for years.
Whether publicly, privately or government funded expenses and the need
for space and man power always increase.
Maybe we need a new law, we will call it Allen's law and it is directly
related to Moore's law. As computers become obsolete faster and faster
the space, time and money to preserve them increases respectively.
On 8/29/2024 10:48 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Aug 29, 2024, at 10:45 AM, John Foust via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
At 07:11 AM 8/29/2024, cz via cctalk wrote:
The purpose of a museum is to destroy history.
Ridiculous. Do the math. If there was a computer so magical and historically
significant because only 100 of them were made, and 95 of them were scrapped
long
ago by individual and corporate owners, and one made it into a "museum,"
why aren't you equally blaming the people who tossed the 95? At least
the museum tried to save it.
Did it, though? The attempt may have been made by the collector who donated
it, and the museum may be the one who reneged on the commitment to preserve.
paul
