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Australian Computer Museum Needs a Saviour
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."
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.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
If they have any G5 Macs, they can store them at my place.
On top of closing their site is slashdotted, must we kill their bandwidth also?
Just install netBsd on all that hardware, including the mechanic ones, and host some p0rn.
It might even be an upgrade. I can't imagine them being much older than the stuff they're running now.
...just come to my workplace here in Sydney - they have IBM Mainframes, SNA, Connect Direct, even Windows 95 for god's sake!
Please don't send a Word document when a text file will do the job.
>> 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.