Re: Computer History Museum IBM Wish List

2018-01-16 Thread William Donzelli
Yes, there are indeed museums that would be interested in looking over what you have, to see if you have something that would fit into the collections. By all means, yes, let the Computer History Museum have a chance at them. They are in my opinion the safest bet for the very long term. This bring

Re: Computer History Museum IBM Wish List

2018-01-16 Thread Pete Lancashire
I donated an 026, sadly never got a conformation or proof. -pete On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > [Default] On 16 Jan 2018 08:50:26 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main > samuel.knut...@compuware.com (Knutson, Samuel) wrote: > > >I've donated small artifacts and papers to museu

Re: Computer History Museum IBM Wish List

2018-01-16 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 16 Jan 2018 08:50:26 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main samuel.knut...@compuware.com (Knutson, Samuel) wrote: >I've donated small artifacts and papers to museums including the Computer >History Museum in the past. I noted that they currently have a few IBM >Mainframe related items on

Re: Computer History Museum IBM Wish List

2018-01-16 Thread Edward Gould
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > > They want a 1403 ribbon, huh? Do they want a usable one? That might > be tough :-). Learning to change a printer ribbon without getting any > ink on me was the hardest skill I learned in my career as an operator > (the disposable plastic g

Re: Computer History Museum IBM Wish List

2018-01-16 Thread Edward Finnell
There used to be a re-inking service. 'course if they hadn't been used for music(the carriage stops for backspace). Used to be a trophy ribbon at the Help Desk with a gaping tear edge-to-edge 'Over printing is cool'. Don't remember when the continuous form printers converted from powder to bea

Re: Computer History Museum IBM Wish List

2018-01-16 Thread Wolfgang Fritz
Hi Samuel there are some additional System on midzise in th 80th IBM System /32 IBM System /34 this are before /38 Am 16.01.2018 um 17:51 schrieb Knutson, Samuel: I've donated small artifacts and papers to museums including the Computer History Museum in the past. I noted that they currently

Re: Computer History Museum IBM Wish List

2018-01-16 Thread Steve Smith
They want a 1403 ribbon, huh? Do they want a usable one? That might be tough :-). Learning to change a printer ribbon without getting any ink on me was the hardest skill I learned in my career as an operator (the disposable plastic gloves were only sporadically available; and obviously, didn't p

Computer History Museum IBM Wish List

2018-01-16 Thread Knutson, Samuel
I've donated small artifacts and papers to museums including the Computer History Museum in the past. I noted that they currently have a few IBM Mainframe related items on the Wish List. If your company or you personally have one of these and is considering what to do with it here is an opport