[Milsurplus] OT Aerospace Archive to Donate

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>The new VP said, and I quote:
>"We are NOT interested in the past; only the future"
>All together now: 1,2,3...  IDIOT!!

Yeah, absolutely un-freaking-beleivable. Would she be willing to drop all those old, dusty patents????

--Wayne
  WB4OGM

 

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com>
To: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
Cc: milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, Nov 10, 2011 8:11 am
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] OT  Aerospace Archive to Donate


This is not a new problem.

Stuff seems to go through a nadir of interest some years after it goes out
of service. Then, some years later it becomes a historic treasure. This is
partly what drove eBay to a success story...  people now coveting the
things of their youth.

A few years ago, I was told by a good friend, curator of a very large
aerospece company's museum, that a new woman vice president had been hired
in from HP. One of her first orders was to shut down the museum and trash
everything in it. Fortunately, he managed to get it moved to another
division and it still survives.

Thye new VP said, and I quote:

"We are NOT interested in the past; only the future"

All together now: 1,2,3...  IDIOT!!

"Those who forget the past are condemned to relive it"

YMMV,

-John

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Davis" <dxguy at earthlink.net>
> To: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:26 AM
> Subject: [Milsurplus] OT Aerospace Archive to Donate
>
>
>> ....Absolutly nothing can be given to individuals -
>> sorry.  This stuff is now being packed for destruction so time is of
>> the
>> essence.  Similar to stories of the military trashing all of the big
>> tech libraries.  Sigh.
>
> Because of these senseless, monsterously stupid rulings
> from little sociopathic minion bureaucrats who look like
> (and have the souls of) Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Gebbels,
> technical archives all over the world have been
> and continue to be destroyed.
> But there are some "heros" (at least to me) out there
> who find ways around such abominable wrong.
> I know of at least one important archive from which many
> important items were saved from the landfill and are now
> in the hands of the only appreciative place of useful
> preservation:  responsible individuals.
>
> 73 Dave S.
>
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