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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Bryan Wetton <bryan@wetton.net>
  Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:12:49 +1030 (CST)

Re: Aust Post and Telegraph Museum

Hi,

> I spent many happy lunch times in there after I started to play with
> electronics. i worked over the road at the Lands Dept - 1966-1977


It seems that some of it may have gone to a "Signaling Building" on marion
road. I'm having dificulty tracing who told me what about this.

cya

> 
> 
> Regards
> Bryan Wetton
> Adelaide SA
> Family History at http://www.box.net.au/~bryanw/ 'A Southerner from the
> North'
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Garner [mailto:alex@netcraft.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 29 December 2000 4:54 PM
> To: David Drury
> Cc: Linux SA
> Subject: Re: Computer Museum
> 
> 
> > I'd be curious to know what demmand there is for such a beast in
> > Adelaide. There was (for instance) at one stage a Telecommunications
> > museum in Adelaide. It is currently in storage, and has been for
> > over 10 years. I believe one reason for closing it was lack of
> > patronage.
> 
> Was that the one on King William Street? If it is I have been trying
> to find out what happened to that for about 5 years now. They used to
> have an old "speaking clock", (you know the 'at the third stroke'
> job). It is the most amazing thing to watch this huge mechanical box
> with cogs, servos and bits of audio tape, chugging out the time.
> 
> I'd love to see it again.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alex!
> 
> --
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> 
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