Hi Dave,
Thanks so much for the suggestion! How would you adhere the film? It won't stay put on its own for 10 years and I need to be certain no one will attempt to peel it away.
Best,
Karen
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Karen -
I think it would be easy to simply cut some very dark mylar film to mask the last four digits of the phone number of concern.
Cheers!
Dave
David Harvey
Senior Conservator and Museum Consultant
Los Angeles, CA
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Karen Kroslowitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
We have come across an unusual issue here as we prepare to open a new exhibition. One of our artifacts, the wooden cased Community Memory, has several paper and self-adhesive labels adhered to it. The labels and posters reveal information about the terminal which are extraordinary to its provenance and absolutely will not be removed or replaced. But they include an old phone number that a user could call to request help. Now, 35 years later, it’s a live cell number for a private individual. To ensure our visitors don’t dial the number and the Museum won’t be inadvertently responsible for using up someone’s monthly minutes, we need to devise a method to cover the last 4 digits. The exhibition will run for 10 years so we need to be on the uber-conservative side of things. Any suggestions?
In case you’re interested, this object was the first computer bulletin board system set up in Berkeley libraries, coffee shops and similar gathering places in the early 1970s. The terminals were connected by a baud link and users could post ads and browse for free but it cost a quarter to print on the Teletype. A pre-Internet craigslist, if you will and it was revolutionary. More here: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102670861 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory.
My thanks to the collective wisdom!
-Karen
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Karen Kroslowitz
Senior Registrar & Collections Manager
Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
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