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Re:The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf] by timthorn on Saturday April 16, 2016 @01:12PM (#11511346)
> The Computer History Museum, run by “hardware guys,” has an extensive and impressive collection of vintage hardware of all kinds and from all eras, but it sits there as a collection of lifeless beige boxes.

And yet The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge has its exhibits powered up - including a collection of several Domesday Machines.

Re:The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf] by outofband on Saturday April 16, 2016 @01:49PM (#11511530)
I think this is the point of the Living Computer Museum - http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/