Computer Museum

[Director]

I would have to agree. I have been building our collection for about two
years now and I have had to move everything twice. I spend a lot of time
negotiating space wherever I can find it. Fortunately we are planning a new
Engineering Building and my endeavors have spiked the interest of the Dean,
so the plans now call for a 10K square foot Engineering museum. Since we
have a running start we may get the lion's share of the space. Right now I
have about 500 Sq. Ft. for storage. We have various displays in different
kinds of cases around the building. 

Sometime in the next week I will be getting 9 vitrines from a museum project
here in Arlington that the voters turned down twice. We will spot them about
the building. Well, that is probably not of general interest to the list,
but I just wanted to show how much of my time and energy this occupies. We
have had no trouble filling the space we have with donations. We have a
Sys/36 for example, some PDP/11 peripherals, a complete Four-Phase Systems
IV/90 (two racks and two washtubs). I spent about $1K on eBay over a year or
so getting small systems and bits and pieces such as some tab cards from WW
II. We have a really interesting S-100 collection - two Altair 8800b's, an
IMSAI or 2, a slug of Cromemcos and a slug of Vectors. 

Anyway, yes, space and $ are by far my larger concerns.

Gil

A. G. (Gil) Carrick, Director
The Museum at CSE 
Coach - ICPC Programming Team
University of Texas at Arlington
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Box 19015, 471 S Cooper Street
Arlington, TX 76019
817-272-3620
http://www.cse.uta.edu/TheMuseum@CSE/ 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org 
> [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:59 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Computer Museum
> 
> On 7/7/05, Joe R. <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >    I agree and I'm waiting to see what happens with this attempt.
> > Supposedly he has the backing of ITT Institute. Or it may just be 
> > another attempt to see what some guy can get people to give him. He 
> > keeps asking about donations and wants a list of what I 
> have but I've 
> > told him that I'd be willing to LOAN him computers and 
> asked what kind 
> > of stuff he's looking for and I haven't gotten a 
> satisfactory reply yet. Time will tell.
> 
> Indeed... getting (most) stuff is the easy part.  Space/money 
> is always the kicker.
> 
> -ethan
> 
>