Re: Writings on AI from 17 years ago....

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On May 25, 2021, at 1:09 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 5/25/21 8:58 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
>>> I believe that enthusiastic and competent individuals will look after
>>> valuable items much better than most museums can.
>> As one who does estate cleanups professionally, I have a wildly
>> different opinion...
> 
> And as someone who has had CHM paying my bills for 15 years and letting
> me put out what I have on bitsavers, I do as well. You aren't going to
> have people working full time on old computer preservation with proper
> preservation facilities that will outlive their founders without funding
> behind it. LOTS of funding. That was the reason the original Computer
> Museum failed. No endowment.

"Endowment" is key here.  The personal wealth of a single person is not a safe 
substitute, as the LCM story has demonstrated.

        paul