[GreenKeys] new guy on the list

[Paul Wills]

Better that a private museum be formed if possible.  Whenever you depend on
the largess of another organization, you are at the risk whenever there is a
change of management at the top.  There are already too many tales of
material that is lost forever because some "bean counter" with no sense of
history decides that the space would better be used for something else.

If I understand correctly, the museum in Seattle is now under the auspices
of the Telecom Heritage Group of Denver, CO.  I also heard (and this is
hearsay until it's verified) that Qwest tried to kick them out but the
Pioneers have an "iron clad" right to the space.

Another approach may be to see what the Telephone Museum in Ellsworth, ME
did.  I understand that it's all on museum property and is subject only to
the whims of the directors of the museum.

http://www.thetelephonemuseum.org/

As Greg Moore has discovered, bureaucrats have no interest in history.

PDW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj at wps.com>
To: "mlmccauley" <mlmccauley at comcast.net>
Cc: "Greenkeys maillist" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 3:08 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] new guy on the list


> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, mlmccauley wrote:
>
> > There are a couple of other good, well established computer museums in
the
> > US, notably the one in Boston, MA.
>
> Which one is that? THe last I knew, the Computer Museum out near
> the piers in Boston folded up, and the Mtn. View CA museum took
> all their stuff.
>
> I also have no preference other than the stuff not end up in
> dumpsters.  I'd far prefer it to go to a public museeum than
> private collections.