Lights (was: Re: Smithsonian gets it wrong)

[Jules Richardson]

Julian Wolfe wrote:
> Well in any case, they could have chosen a much better example, it's all
> yellowed and nasty, and they're making it worse with that fluorescent light.

So given the choice, what lighting *is* good?

I'm just thinking that we might have to replace lighting at the museum 
one day - so maybe keeping other options in mind is a good idea, 
providing they're not horribly expensive....

> I bet it's just a VAX chassis someone threw in the dumpster from this list.
> There's probably not even anything in it, except a broken TK50.

Hmm, not so sure. We certainly wouldn't want to fleece the public by 
putting an empty machine on display without *saying* it was just a case, 
even if the public never got to see the insides (although of course we 
*want* people to ask and be interested in machine innards as well as 
outside appearance!)

I expect most museums are the same though - even if the item's stuck in 
a glass case, it still seems wrong for it to just be a shell rather than 
a complete system unless explicitly stated as such to the public.

cheers

Jules