24 Mar
1999
24 Mar
'99
8:26 a.m.
At 11:11 PM 3/23/99 -0800, you wrote:
I have done some checking into financing such a venture and it appears that,
at least out here, seed money could probably be made available. The biggest
problem is ongoing support for overhead. Some friends of mine had talked
about a number of ways to help support such a venture:
I think it would work in Silicon Valley or Seattle. The gift shop
could sell all manner of techie trinkets, perhaps handmade by the
volunteers from old interesting chips - but that seems in opposition
to preservationist efforts. Or you could periodically restore a
particular system to working, near-mint condition, and sell it on Ebay.
The street finds its uses for things! Media conversion and rescue
may be a very profitable sideline, too.
What you need is a benefactor. Paul Allen comes to mind - he's
funding a few engineers for his PDP recreation, isn't he?
- John