[GreenKeys] parts repository

[Eric Scace K3NA]

Hi everyone --

   We are mid-way, or perhaps a bit past mid-way, through the cycle when obsolete technology transforms from "stuff thrown out
because new stuff came along" into "collector items and museum pieces, for which documentation and parts are extremely difficult to
find".

   Recently I read that the proprietor of Typetronics is getting on in years.  Has the Greenkeys community given thought to
developing one or two repositories for parts, in which extra parts and carcasses can be retained as a way of preserving our
technical heritage for the future?  How about an on-line repository of photographs and documentation?

   I have watched organizations in the UK struggling with capturing and maintaining "industrial heritage", which is becoming
recognized as a preservation field of its own, like preserving architecture, battlefields, and so on.

   I know a few people here are associated with a self-standing museum of data technology.  There is another museum of
communications technology in Angiers, France (a wealthy man's folly now managed by the state).

   But, outside of these institutions, what can be done?  Maybe a few of us can do something to help tide us over into the future?

-- Eric K3NA