26 Jun
2024
26 Jun
'24
11:22 p.m.
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.
...