Always wanted to visit it whenever I was next in Seattle, I guess I will need to wait a while though.
In the UK we have a few smallish computer museums; one in Manchester University, one at a London University and then we have the National Museum of Computing at Bletchely park (not to be confused with Bletchely park museum, as there is some politics)
It is important in the case of NMoC that it is preserved, especially that they have a working Colossus machine and many other historic British computing achievements.
Considering someone who was young (20s-30s) during the golden era of computing will now be in their 60s-70s+
There is going to be a time when this living history is no longer with us. Its great to see lots of archives and memorials online.
Its always great to hear war stories from the 80s and 90s from people who were once junior engineers like yourself. How they made a mistake, quickly hacked a fix and saved the day.
I wonder if there is anything more we can do to document these giants, that we are standing on the shoulders of?
In the UK we have a few smallish computer museums; one in Manchester University, one at a London University and then we have the National Museum of Computing at Bletchely park (not to be confused with Bletchely park museum, as there is some politics)
It is important in the case of NMoC that it is preserved, especially that they have a working Colossus machine and many other historic British computing achievements.