The gift
November 16, 2007 – 2:06 pm
Today was the day I gave away my beloved NeXTstation Mono computer to the Hungarian Museum for Science and Technology. It was a hard decision to make. I started learning computer languages like C and Objective-C on NeXTSTEP OS as well as using a professional graphical user interface and a true UNIX-like command line environment.
As time passed the poor NeXT computer became unnecessary. I never turned it on. It was just like a piece of furniture collecting dust. I felt time has come to do something with it. Throw it away? Get rid of it by advertising on an auction site and sell at a cheap price?
Then it came into my mind a friend of mine is working at OMM (the technical museum). They will be glad to acquire an outstanding computer as a free gift. The mail has been sent and they accepted my proposal.
Now OMM’s collection is richer with a fantastic computer which is the real ancestor of modern Mac computers running OS X and even of iPhone.
I took some photos at the museum. Please check out the pictures on my Flickr site: click here
I want to thank Gábor Képes for his kindness he showed me in the museum.
If you store objects in the museum, does they have any replication or backup feature to prevent object damage / loss?
By dH on Nov 16, 2007
No way. Computers / machines in the museum are not to be turned on. There is a rule saying: preserve artifacts for the future in all ways. Sometimes museum workers MAY turn a machine on but it is unlikely to happen too frequently.
On the other hand they have no resources to maintain different hardware components from different ages. Think of MFM drives or older storage devices.
To do such a thing like making backups would be more than a challenge
By segabor on Nov 18, 2007