[Gllug] preserving a piece of history

[M.Blackmore]

There is a Museum of Computing at the Swindon campaus of the Uni of
Bristol - A contact is swebb at cix.co.uk (he's getting a couple of itmes
from me).

Can't remember its exact name.

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 11:35 +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Another mailing list that I'm a member of is clubbing together to bid 
> for this:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7581176936
> 
> There aren't many of these things in existence and the plan is to donate 
>   it to a museum.  The obvious choice was the Science Museum however, 
> having spoken the the Curator of Computing, they actually already have a 
> nonworking one and try not to accept duplicates for reasons of storage 
> space.
> 
> The curator did think that other museums would love to have one of these 
> on display, and suggested, for one, the National Museum of Photography, 
> Film & Television ( http://www.nmpft.org.uk/about/background.asp ) and 
> encouraged us to try to win the item if possible.
> 
> Here's where you come in:  The pot currently stands at £330 and that's 
> unlikely to be enough to win the auction.  If you would like to pledge 
> some cash towards the pot then please contact me offlist and I will add 
> you to the pool.  There's no minimum limit, but the typical contribution 
> has been £20 and the lowest contribution so far is £10.
> 
> Helping this scheme out won't immortalise you, but you might just get 
> your name on a very small plaque somewhere in a museum.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your support
> 
> Martin A. Brooks
> 
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