get some thick plexi glass to cover it and sit it up for display to look in but not touch ;)
On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 9:08 AM Guy Dunphy via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > At 04:34 AM 3/11/2018 -0700, Al Kossow <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 11/3/18 1:00 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > > > >> I only received this machine on Thursday, opened the box properly on > Friday and found it was missing such > >> such major parts. It belongs to the ACMS (Australian Computer Museum > Society) but with the way things are > >> going with them and their storage space ongoing misfortunes, I may be > 'looking after it for them' indefinitely. > >> (grins) > > > >The loss of a non-profit collecting institution is nothing to "grin" > about. > >I hope you start thinking about who it will go to when you die. > > > >Also, since it isn't yours, did you tell them you intend to 'restore' it? > > > Al, a few points: > > 1. This and several other items from their collection were passed > specificaly to me BY THE ACMS last week, on their > initiative, since their storage situation has deteriorated further. The > executive of ACMS have visited my workshop, > and know my capabilities and intentions. > > 2. I'm not grinning about the tragic lack of support for tech museums in > this country (Australia.) If you knew me at all, > you'd know my opinions of why that is, and what a disaster it is. > I'm grinning about having a chance to preserve such a nice machine, > myself. This should be obvious to anyone who wasn't > predisposed to a hostile attitude, for some reason. > > 3. I'm currently only evaluating options for restoring it. And will > discuss with ACMS before doing anything, apart from > making a screw-on protection for the wire-wrap backplane asap. (Next > week, need to buy some aluminum sections.) > It will be a *long time* before I can seriously begin on it, due to the > length of my work queue. Which doesn't mean > I can't start trying to locate information and parts now. > > 3. It seems you have time to go out of your way to criticise in a > situation you know little about, but you don't have > time to find that Documation TM200 physical manual you recalled seeing > at bitsavers, and repeatedly ignore me when > I ask you about where it is now, what are your plans for it, can I > borrow or buy it from you, etc. > Since I'm restoring a TM200, and so far yours is the only sighted copy > of a manual anywhere, that's disappointing. > > 4. 'When I die' - this is a known issue. Though thankfully not an urgent > one. Australia is very different to the USA. > > Guy > >
