Re: Lisa tech preservation, Alice

2005-09-07 Thread Jennifer Worgan
- Original Message - From: "macmoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LisaList" Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 12:37 AM Subject: Re: Lisa tech preservation, Alice > "Private collections are OK, but it really would be valuable for there > to be a museum o

Re: Lisa tech preservation, Alice

2005-08-27 Thread Marcin Wichary
I think Toby has a great point there. Some of the museums are much less responsible for their collections than most of private aficionados -- I mean, even for a museum curator, how could a 25-year- old computer compare to other artifacts that survived centuries? It's not only museums. Back w

Re: Lisa tech preservation, Alice

2005-08-27 Thread Toby Thain
People often make donations to public museums or There were founded many non-public museums in universities or technical high schools I personally collected Apples and Macs for dozends of years - of course Lisas too! Later I made donations (by giving away several Lisas) to two public tech

Re: Lisa tech preservation, Alice

2005-08-27 Thread macmoni
Hi ! you wrote: "Private collections are OK, but it really would be valuable for there to be a museum or some sort of central repository for Lisa tech." Well I don't know all the facts about the various efforts to turn some private collections into museums all over the world BUT in centra

Re: Lisa tech preservation, Alice

2005-08-26 Thread Blake Patterson
On Aug 26, 2005, at 10:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote to the guy (Bruce Horn?) who runs folklore.org and he gave me Capps' e-mail, but I didn't get a response when I asked about Alice. Andy Hertzfeld runs Folklore.org. Indeed, Steve Capps wrote Alice. The Mac version is pretty n

Re: Lisa tech preservation, Alice

2005-08-26 Thread Jennifer Worgan
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LisaList" Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:07 AM Subject: Lisa tech preservation, Alice > There really should be some sort of non-profit organization designed to > preserve the Lisa legacy. Lisa stuff is being scattered

Lisa tech preservation, Alice

2005-08-26 Thread sauersr
There really should be some sort of non-profit organization designed to preserve the Lisa legacy. Lisa stuff is being scattered on Ebay and ends up in various collections or thrown out. Private collections are OK, but it really would be valuable for there to be a museum or some sort of central repo