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What happened to that professor who owned it? I assume he passed away or something. Unless they just stole it? :P Maybe give the guy a little bit of credit for the collection even if he couldn't take care of it as well as a museum.
[1] https://www.aachen-gedenkt.de/traueranzeige/profdr-ingwalter...
> According to a local office worker, this wasn’t unusual; numerous unexploded bombs had been found on-site in the years prior, prompting evacuations in 2004. Yep, this is still a regular (and mostly mundane) occurrence in Germany.
Where are all these machines from? Who owned them, and why? Why were they all there in storage, in a hangar. Would have been even more interesting.
As a German I wonder why was this treasure given away to a US museum? Also what is the legal status of ownership of all this? Would have been interesting to read more about this.
God, what an odd first paragraph... wow, how did this collection of computers, most of which are probably from 1950s onwards, survive Allied bombing of the 1940s? Then again, it's from 2006, which probably explains the style of writing... Edit: The HTML source indicates the article was written in 2025. With video recorded in 2006 (in glorious 360p) and uploaded to YouTube last year.
The writing seems odd because it’s from the BAI (Before AI) era.
God, what an odd first paragraph... wow, how did this collection of computers, most of which are probably from 1950s onwards, survive Allied bombing of the 1940s? Then again, it's from 2006, which probably explains the style of writing... Edit: The HTML source indicates the article was written in 2025. With video recorded in 2006 (in glorious 360p) and uploaded to YouTube last year.
Read on to the last paragraph, I think what they meant to hint at is this: > And about those WWII bombing raids? Midway through our work, we noticed a demolition team carefully dismantling a live 500-pound Allied bomb just 350 feet from our location. According to a local office worker, this wasn’t unusual; numerous unexploded bombs had been found on-site in the years prior, prompting evacuations in 2004. If you live…
As a German I wonder why was this treasure given away to a US museum? Also what is the legal status of ownership of all this? Would have been interesting to read more about this.
As a German I wonder why was this treasure given away to a US museum? Also what is the legal status of ownership of all this? Would have been interesting to read more about this.
As a German I wonder why was this treasure given away to a US museum? Also what is the legal status of ownership of all this? Would have been interesting to read more about this.
Insert joke about Egyptian Mummies and British Museums here
But in this case the answer seems simply, in germany the stuff was rotten and nobody took proper care of it anymore, so I guess it was simply sold? The article is not clear about it, but it lead with "abandoned in a warehouse".
What happened to that professor who owned it? I assume he passed away or something. Unless they just stole it? :P Maybe give the guy a little bit of credit for the collection even if he couldn't take care of it as well as a museum.
Died in August 2010 [1], so he was still alive when this happened in August 2006. [1] https://www.aachen-gedenkt.de/traueranzeige/profdr-ingwalter...
Maybe the professor ( or his legal representitive) instigated the donation to CHM???