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16th Oct 2022, 3:23 pm | #1 |
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KB Museum.
I was sad to see the late Mike Edwards site has disappeared.
Does anyone know if the content has been archived ? |
16th Oct 2022, 4:44 pm | #2 |
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Re: kb museum
you can always try the Wayback Machine
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16th Oct 2022, 5:11 pm | #3 |
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Re: kb museum
I tried and it gave "url not captured" and then I got
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/...useum.org.uk/* needed the* |
16th Oct 2022, 5:55 pm | #4 |
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Re: kb museum
Not quite the same but much of Mike's collection is in Radiomuseum.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/collecti...edwards~3.html Peter |
16th Oct 2022, 6:51 pm | #5 |
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Re: kb museum
I had left a page from that site open on my browser from the previous day and when I next went on my laptop and tried to follow another link from the top menu I got a 404 error. Then I discovered the whole site was down!
I hope all the material on it has been archived somehow. I think I saved a few catalogues from there, if we need to collate what we can! |
23rd Dec 2022, 11:26 am | #6 |
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Re: kb museum
The KB museum website is working at my location (screen shot attached)
http://www.kbmuseum.org.uk/ Lawrence. Last edited by ms660; 23rd Dec 2022 at 11:32 am. Reason: extra info |
23rd Dec 2022, 12:02 pm | #7 |
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Re: KB Museum.
Working here too from Lawrence's link.
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23rd Dec 2022, 12:12 pm | #8 |
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Re: KB Museum.
In case this invaluable resource goes down (I was friends with Mike and bought a few of his sets when he decided to disperse the museum; we had a mutual interest in KB) I made a local archive of it using wget.
It has occasionally dropped off but as has been pointed out, Mike's museum was on Radiomuseum as he was one of the staff there. |
23rd Dec 2022, 12:18 pm | #9 |
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Re: KB Museum.
Working fine here too.
What a legacy Mike left us!
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23rd Dec 2022, 12:55 pm | #10 |
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Re: KB Museum.
Indeed - I remember towing a KB LG40 radiogram from West Yorkshire to the services at Stansted for him, where he bought me lunch!
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23rd Dec 2022, 1:50 pm | #11 |
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Re: KB Museum.
I also had 2 or 3 of Mike's sets when he started to disperse them.
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23rd Dec 2022, 2:04 pm | #12 |
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Re: KB Museum.
I think Mike's website went offline for a while probably as Gill had an a lot to cope with after Mike's passing and didn't renew the domain.
Sadly Mike was taken from us all too soon He was a genuine guy and helped me dismantle a Cossor Gram in a barn as well as hold onto a couple of sets for me. In the last couple of years he started to disperse his collection and got into CB and breeding pigeons. His website is a great piece of work. Cheers Mike T
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23rd Dec 2022, 6:28 pm | #13 |
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Re: KB Museum.
I used to visit them from time to time and there was always a warm welcome from them.
Sadly missed. |
26th Jan 2023, 8:07 pm | #14 |
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Re: KB Museum.
It's back!! Might try that mass downloader thing incase this happens again.
Thanks for getting it back up again !!! |
27th Jan 2023, 4:23 pm | #15 | |
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Re: KB Museum.
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The kbmuseum.org.uk domain name is due for renewal on 13th Feb 2023 so we will see in a few weeks if someone is still paying to keep it going or if it will quietly die. Hosting is obviously still being paid for although that may have been annual. |
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28th Jan 2023, 2:30 pm | #16 |
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Re: KB Museum.
Mike was of immense help during my 'painful' restoration of a Kolster-Brandes MR10 - his knowledge of the range is irreplaceable, notwithstanding his patience and perseverance with my questions!
@Paul Stenning - is it possible to find out who is financing the website and how much it costs? Surely we should be able to pull together a crowd-funding type solution if it's not too onerous?
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1st Jul 2023, 2:13 pm | #17 |
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Re: KB Museum.
Unfortunately, it appears that Mike's KBmuseum is now offline.
Andy
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11th Dec 2023, 2:34 pm | #18 |
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23rd Mar 2024, 5:43 pm | #19 |
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Re: KB Museum.
The kbmuseum.org.uk domain name is now overdue renewal and suspended.
If I can catch it when it expires (before anyone else gets it) I'll register it and put up the copy of Mike's website I downloaded back in 2021, together with any newer bits from the Wayback Machine as an archive If that isn't possible then we still have the Wayback Machine archive. |