[Milsurplus] OT Aerospace Archive to Donate

[J. Forster]

Probably. They make money.

-John

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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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