From: Fred.van.Kempen@microwalt.nl (Fred N. van Kempen)
Subject: [pups] ACMS (Australian 'puter museum) doomed?
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:18:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7AD18F04B62B7440BE22E190A3F7721409E428@mwsrv04.microwalt.nl> (raw)
Ow, c'mon. In *australia*, how hard can it be to find or make
space for that priceless collection? Geez!
Given the nearly-complete collection of DEC systems, HP-Oz should
be deeply ashamed if they don't pitch in, along with other vendors
and local support techs.
We can't expect all companies to maintain a collection that reflects
their history (for tech-practical reasons alone), but we *should* be
able to expect them to help others who do it "for" them...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Thain [mailto:tobyhome at telegraphics.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:08 PM
> To: Dave Horsfall
> Cc: pups at minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [pups] Re: History of 32-bit UNIX (was History of 2 BSD)
>
>
>
> On 11/11/2003, at 3:01 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> >
> >>> I believe the Wollongong port predated the one at Bell
> Labs. Peter
> >>> Gray tells me he still has the original machine they
> used, and he'd
> >>> like to find a museum-like place to keep it. No idea whether it
> >>> runs. Greg Rose should know a lot more about this
> matter. Greg, are
> >>> you out there?
> >>
> >> Having the original Wollongong Interdata 7/32 might
> >> be interesting to the Computer History museum, though
> >> it might be expensive to transport it across the Pacific.
> >
> > Perhaps this would be a better home for it:
> >
> > http://www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/museum.htm
>
> It would not be a safe home until they have solved their eviction
> problem (now due for mid-Dec 2003):
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515142.html
> and http://www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/
>
> Given the significance of the machine in question, IMHO it would be
> safer in care of private individuals until an Australian computer
> museum is funded -
> http://www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/
> ACMS%20Prospectus%20rec%20on%2005Feb2003.htm
>
> Toby
>
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next reply other threads:[~2003-11-11 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-11 13:18 Fred N. van Kempen [this message]
2003-11-12 1:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2003-11-12 20:49 ` Peter Jeremy
2003-11-12 23:06 ` Johnny Billquist
2003-11-13 8:43 ` Jochen Kunz
2003-11-14 10:27 ` robinb
2003-11-14 14:58 ` Gregg C Levine
2003-11-14 15:44 ` robinb
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