On 5/3/2024 5:35 AM, Gianluca Bonetti via cctalk wrote:
Hello everyone
I am helping Museo del Computer with this fundraising effort in order to
save a large number of machines with significant historic value, including
some Sperry Univac systems.
Museo del Computer is a non-profit organization in northern Italy, run
solely by volunteer work and donors' money since governments are still not
interested in computer history.
Museo del Computer is one of the largest computer history museums
worldwide, with 4000 sqm between exhibition area and storage space, open to
the public upon booking.
This recovery expedition will go as far as 750km to load 100+ machines onto
3 lorries.
Gianluca Bonetti
Is there a list somewhere of the machines?
Also, if there are EXEC OS tapes there, make sure those are treated with
care. If they need help reading 7 track tapes and are willing to ship
them to the US, I can recommend a contact who recently read a 7 track
tape for me that dated back to the 1960s.
As far as vetting the legitimacy of the fund raising campaign, I did a
little diggging.
First I saw that there is a website that folks may find useful.
http://www.museodelcomputer.org/
That website has a donations page, but the translation process makes it
hard to find the link on that donation page, but I did see a link on the
Italian version, and it does seem to point to the same place, so it
seems legit. (There is a link I found on that page near the end of this
posting).
https://fundrazr.com/computermuseum?ref=ab_62Z1p5MB63862Z1p5MB638
Also, I followed a link from the above fundrazr that points back to
their website donation page, which is reassuring:
http://www.museodelcomputer.org/index.php/nav=Informazioni.35/Language=ITA/MD=/SD=/Pagina=4
JRJ
