Sponsor a Valve On Colossus

mikejuk writes "The UK's National Museum of Computing has come up with a novel idea to raise funds for its new gallery for its rebuilt Colossus computer — you can sponsor a valve. All you have to do is buy a small area in a picture of Colossus (at £0.1 per pixel — min £10), upload a picture to occupy the space, set a URL and pay using PayPal."

Novel?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

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[SJHillman]

That was my first thought after reading the summary. Maybe it's novel because they're using currency other than the dollar?

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[pinfall]

That was my first thought after reading the summary. Maybe it's novel because they're using currency other than the dollar?

I for one welcome our old computer overlords.

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[Sechr Nibw]

And that it's only £100,000, not a million? 1,000 x 1,000 pixels, at £0.1 per pixel...they're doing it wrong!

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[jemtallon]

[hat type="SEO"]
It's novel in the sense that the links you buy come from a now-prominent .org and don't have "nofollow" on them
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[Anonymous Coward]

i can top that: St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna:
after WW2 there was not enough money to recreate the roof, so the people of vienna were asked to buy shingles (I hope leo translated that correctly for me) for 1 Schilling ... the thing was a success as you might expect ;)

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[RandLS]

I wonder when Alex will sue for copyright infringement and theft of IP. ;P

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[rpopescu]

Why would it need to be novel?!

This is about repairing a historically significant computer, not cheap internet publicity stunts. What sort of ignorant voted that comment "informative"?

Has anybody contacted Dr. Forbin about this?

[mmell]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project [wikipedia.org]

This is the voice of World Control

[reluctantjoiner]

I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied dead....Except for mmell who paid for this shiny new valve, and in return has been allocated an additional martini per week.

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[treeves]

Valve is the British term for [vacuum] tubes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube [wikipedia.org]

Knowing the internet...

[JustAnotherIdiot]

Half of it is just going to be dicks.

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[virgnarus]

Half of it is just going to be dicks.

That would be too obvious and I'm sure they have regulations that would stop that short. Instead, you will have people posting by purchasing larger ranges of pixels and upload various images/colors to construct a fitting representation of said genitalia.

Can I pay NOT using Paypal?

[Blakey Rat]

Because, seriously, I'm not giving those assholes business. But I'd like to donate.

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[X0563511]

Contact them. I'm sure they'll take donations in a variety of means.

HL3

[masteva]

Am I the only one that thought this was a ploy by Valve to get your name in Half Life 3 when reading the title???

Valve = vacuum tube

[IcyHando'Death]

For those of you who've never hung out with an engineer from the UK (and aren't one yourself), a valve in this context is a vacuum tube.

Not a real valve

[chaim79]

The name is somewhat missleading, you aren't sponsoring a 'valve' but instead your logo covering portion of an image of the valves used... I would much rather be part of it if the sponsorship was tied to an actual valve, however I understand how that would be less for them.

What they are currently 'selling' is 1,000,000 pixels at 0.1£ per pixel, minimum donation of 100 pixels (10£). So in the end they would be getting 1,000,000£ minus paypal costs.

If you could be a sponsor to the upkeep of a physical valve the corresponding cost would be 400£ per valve. Truth be told, I'd be interested in doing that as an annual contribution, especially if there was some sort of physical plaque somewhere on site stating who was sponsoring the project and how many valves they sponsored.