[TUHS] Re: Sad but not unexpected news about the LCM-L

[aki@insinga.com]

They did, in one of DEC's buildings in Marlborough, Massachusetts: The 
Digital Computer Museum dba The Computer Museum.  Later it moved to 
Boston in the same building as the Children's Museum there; space that 
was used by an automobile museum for a while.  After the End of the Age 
of Minicomputers, it moved to California and eventually became the 
Computer History Museum.  MIT Lincoln Lab took back the TX-0 and 
disassembled it to some extent so that it could be moved and put into 
storage, where it sits, in a classified facility which we mere insecure 
civilians can't access.  A few things were on display in The Science 
Museum in Boston (it inherited the Massachusetts non-profit organization 
of TCM IIUC) but I think they've been moved to CHM too.  And at least 
some of those giants have now passed away too.

And make that an actually *endowed* museum.  I've been reminded that 
Allen also created a Science Fiction Museum and a Rock & Roll Museum.  
The SF has been merged into the R&R because that's the one that will 
probably sell enough tickets to keep paying the bills and the staff.

- Aron



On 2024-06-25 20:42, George Michaelson wrote:
...
> You would think somebody in Maynard would fund oh, I don't know.. an
> old Mill structure to be repurposed as a museum? Or many in Armonk?
> 
> The Indy "this belongs in a museum" really needs a rider: A nationally
> recognized, affiliated, publicly endowable museum.
...