[NJARC] Infoage: Museum or Science Center?

[Ray Chase]

Good comments, I agree with just about all of it.  We have a bunch of 
vintage TV's on display all their bad original internal caps but they 
command much less interest than the working 1948 model; playing 1950's 
programs to boot.  Somewhere we have a snapshot taken during a museum 
tour of 3 young teenage girls sitting on the floor enthralled by 
watching an early B&W program, a Sid Caesar special I think.  BTW, we do 
have a one-of-a-kind rare artifact in the "Washington Receiver" built by 
Harold Wheeler when he invented and patented the AVC or AGC circuit in 
1925.  So far we have only conserved this artifact but maybe one day we 
will attempt to operate it.  I guess it would be considered permissible 
to replace a defective plug-in tube with another of proper vintage.  
Probably has no failed caps but at some time we may have to decide how 
far to go with it.
Ray

Jim Whartenby wrote:

>Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
>_______________________________________________
>Ruth and I visited InfoAge last month for the first time.  We were both very impressed with the exhibits.  It is evident that a lot of hard work was done by the usual, but all too few, dedicated NJARC members.
>
>Well done!
>
>Working exhibits are a joy.  Perhaps I am in the minority here but I feel that a working exhibit (read radio) is, in fact, a living thing.  Since I work at a thoroughbred race track, 
>