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Re: Obituary for a Cyber

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From: cjt
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:05
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I seem to recall reading about the Museum not treating some of the donations
they received with the respect they deserved.  Precisely what is the policy
regarding the disposition of donations?  How do they decide which to:

maintain/display/restore
sell
cannibalize
scrap
other

???

Lee Courtney wrote:
> 
> A note for those with older hardware. When the time comes to decommission
> your older systems which may be of historical significance please contact
> the Computer History Museum (www.computerhistory.org) regarding a possible
> donation to the historic collection (details available at
> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/). The Museum
> maintains the world's largest collection of historic computing artifacts
> ranging from individual components up through complete mainframe and
> super-computers.
> 
> Also if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area consider visiting the
> collection which is open for public tours -
> http://www.computerhistory.org/about/tour/.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lee Courtney
> 
> "John Yaya" <j_yaya@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:a27df31c.0203200653.39c43f8b@posting.google.com...
> > Ramsey County, MN has shut down its Cyber 70 Model 72.  It got this
> > writeup in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
> > http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/2853967.htm
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