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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
For the same reason that some weirdos thought it was a good idea to hang on to antique automobiles or to not throw every single working primitive computer in the landfill. Do you really not understand why something like this is worth saving? For clarity, are you differentiating between preserving the board at a museum and saving it in place in the station?
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I really do not understand why this is worth saving.
If it must be preserved, fine, put it in a museum, but I don't think it is even worth that. There's nothing "historic" about it. It was put there in the 1970s as a technological upgrade. Now it is an anachronism. The spirit of this thing is to be able to provide information in the most efficient way possible to the greatest number of people. Let's keep doing that with computer screens and whatever other technology they'll use in the future, not keep antiquated boards around for their kitsch value.
They had the same type of board at Penn Station in NY, and when they went to replace it with computer screens, there was a similar attempt to keep it. It failed, and now there are screens all over the station of all sizes that disseminate the information much faster and better. No one misses the flip flap board there now.