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Sponsor a Valve On Colossus

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 9, 2012 @05:01AM from the don't-worry-they-have-tubes-too dept.

mikejuk writes "The UK's National Museum of Computing has come up with a novel idea to raise funds for its new gallery for its rebuilt Colossus computer — you can sponsor a valve. All you have to do is buy a small area in a picture of Colossus (at £0.1 per pixel — min £10), upload a picture to occupy the space, set a URL and pay using PayPal."

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Novel? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-09 05:03 · Score: 5, Informative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
1. Re:Novel? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-09 05:35 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  i can top that: St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna:
  after WW2 there was not enough money to recreate the roof, so the people of vienna were asked to buy shingles (I hope leo translated that correctly for me) for 1 Schilling ... the thing was a success as you might expect ;)