[inforoots] Comments on the laptop / Grid thread

[Bill Selmeier]

Anyone wishing to donate artifacts to the Computer History Museum in 
Mountain View, CA should go to the Museum's web page:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/ .  Links 
from this page provide a wealth of informaiton including items 
especially wanted, items the Museum already has in sufficient 
quantity (e.g. I counted 11 Osbornes a while ago so I think it will 
not be  needed) and donation forms.  A committee meets weekly, I 
think on Tuesday, and you will get a prompt response from the 
Accessions Manager.  Anything about physical delivery, etc will be 
determined after it is accepted by this committee.

These things are all precious to us but it is amazing how much is 
still out there and how much has already been donated.  The Museum's 
collections in total now measures in the tens of thousands.  The 
public areas, Visible Storage, The Chess Exhibit, and Innovation 101 
amounting to 600+ artifacts is less than 5% of the physical 
collection.  For those local to Mountain View, the prize is to 
volunteer and you will have the opportunity to see much of the remaining 95+%.

If getting you in means personally walking through that is easy, the 
current open hours are 1-4 Wed and Fri and 11-5 Saturdays.  Other 
days continue to be explored, but it takes courage.

Bill, who is local, for now.

At 02:29 PM 02/18/06, you wrote:
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> >>> I have a Grid, but it only boots from the floppy drive these days, and
>also have an Osbourne One, some Kaypros, S-100, even back to my first
>TeleType 33 and 9-track tape drive.  I even have a Connection Machine in a
>garage.
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> >>> I've been wondering how to get these, and perhaps me, into a museum.
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>There's a list of U.S. computer museums on my newsletter's web site.  The
>site is http://news.computercollector.com (no "www" since we borrow the
>domain from someone else), then click the Places / Events link.
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Computer History Museum                    Senior Docent
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