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

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

  3. 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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