8 Oct
2015
8 Oct
'15
12:37 p.m.
On 10/8/15 11:38 AM, Ian Finder wrote:
We do not intend to overlap with a big, professional
museum like CHM or LCM. Rather think of this as a kind of a maker-space for old systems;
There is a lot of interest in Seattle- largely people from the software industry- who
would love to code something on a real PDP 11, Symbolics or a Xerox or a 3B2 / BLIT, but
aren't equipped to handle care and feeding of these sorts of machines.
Good. There have been false starts for something similar down here for at least five
years
The problem is real estate has become insanely expensive here, so it is tough to get
traction.
I have a good friend that lived on CH in the 90's, and it sounds like things are
getting bad up there
too.