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Australian Computer Museum Needs a Saviour

Posted by timothy on from the mad-max-perhaps dept.

femto writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the Australian Computer Museum (archive.org) is to close due to lack of funds. It is the largest computer collection in Australia. Failing an offer of a permanent home, they need storage space or money to pay for it. They also need some way to sort the collection."

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  1. Antique computers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean, like, 486's?

    /me ducks.

    1. Re:Antique computers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, more like coal fired.

    2. Re:Antique computers? by ACMS+Prez · · Score: 2, Funny

      :) :) 486's are among the NEWER stuff we have. We use them to stand on.

  2. Thats to bad they dont... by mw5299 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thats to bad they dont have any funding. I seem to have a few computers for there museum.

    1. Re:Thats to bad they dont... by basingwerk · · Score: 2, Funny

      We have a local 'museum' for this kind of stuff. Sorting it is easy - they just mix it together with all kinds of other useless stuff, and keep it outside in a large heap.

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  3. Heapsort! by orthogonal · · Score: 4, Funny

    the Australian Computer Museum... need[s] storage space... [and] some way to sort the collection.

    While Bubble Sort is always a sentimental favorite, I suggest Heapsort for its O( n log n) runtime, even in the worst case, and, even more importantly given the Museum's lack of storage space, Heapsort's use of only a fixed amount of extra space in which to do the sort.

    Also, there is a BSD'd Heapsort implemented using forklifts and standard warehouse storage crates.

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  4. I'll help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they have any G5 Macs, they can store them at my place.

  5. tsk tsk by countach44 · · Score: 4, Funny

    On top of closing their site is slashdotted, must we kill their bandwidth also?

  6. the solution by nazsco · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just install netBsd on all that hardware, including the mechanic ones, and host some p0rn.

  7. Give the computers to some of my clients... by TheOtherAgentM · · Score: 3, Funny

    It might even be an upgrade. I can't imagine them being much older than the stuff they're running now.

  8. Screw the museum... by domukun367 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...just come to my workplace here in Sydney - they have IBM Mainframes, SNA, Connect Direct, even Windows 95 for god's sake!

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  9. Re:I must have the other point of view then.. by M.+Silver · · Score: 2, Funny

    Old fridges are cool, as opposed to the modern kind which are intentionally designed to last for an average of 7 years.

    Even so, the modern kind are generally still cool for those seven years.

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  10. Hmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    >> It is the largest computer collection in Australia.

    That reminds me about the Presidential library that burned down. They lost both books. And he hadn't finished coloring one of them yet.

  11. They should by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should build the world's least powerful Beowulf cluster.

  12. In democratic Australia... by Dingeaux · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...we have the Big Pineapple, the Tractor Museum and the Giant Koala - and we can't find the money to keep the Computer Museum open?

    This country has its priorities ass-backwards.

  13. <rimshot> by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny


    > Australian Computer Museum Needs a Saviour

    Have they asked Jesus for help?

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