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  From: <rilingaf@senet.com.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:35:18 GMT

Re: Aust Post and Telegraph Museum

It was an interesting place to look at and see the changes in telephony 
technology that occurred in approximately 10 years (1975..1985, let alone the 
past 100 years.

It was staffed by ex-PMG/Telecom/Telstra people who gave, from what I'm told, 
up their free time to maintain the equipment and act as guides.

Basically, again from what I've been told, it was a closed for financial 
reasons (ie Telstra didn't want to pay the ongoing accomondation costs) and the 
equipment is _currently_ in storage at {Telstra/NDC} Kidman Park.  

What happens to the stored equipment will be interesting.

Cheers,

Tony Riling

> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> >Was that the one on King William Street? .
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> Regards
> Bryan Wetton
> Adelaide SA
> Family History at http://www.box.net.au/~bryanw/ 'A Southerner from the
> North'
> Blue Steel Trials 1958-1965  at http://bluesteel.cjb.net
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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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