> On Feb 1, 2024, at 9:52 AM, Henry Bent via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 09:37, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 31, 2024, at 7:16 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <
>> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Enter museum in Switzerland has a nice library of docs. I found that
>>> museum to be chock full of interesting German and other computers. Worth
>>> the trip.
>>> Bill
>>
>> Is any of that online?
>>
>> One frustrating thing about various museums is that they have stuff, but
>> you can't access it. For example, I know a museum with a collection of
>> 1950s software on punched tape, but they refuse access to it for reading
>> it.
>>
>
> Generally I have found that access to special collections is conditional on
> having credentials that the museum is willing to accept. In that case I
> can imagine that the museum might be willing to allow inspection, perhaps
> supervised, but that they would not be willing to allow their media to be
> run through a punched tape reader because they were concerned about the
> possibility for damage. Did you talk to them about the possibility of some
> sort of optical scanning?
Yes, a standard optical paper tape reader. And the proposal was to have their
staff supervise or operate, with us supplying the equipment and delivering the
results.
paul
