19 Aug
2008
19 Aug
'08
11:24 a.m.
John Foust wrote:
At 03:11 PM 8/18/2008, joe lobocki wrote:
They are.
someone really should open a vintage computer
museum near
chicago...Ive toyed with the idea, i think space in the old 3com
building in rolling meadows would be a fitting place for vintage
computing....
I'd love to hear from anyone actually operating a computer museum.
They seem like money sinks. Obviously, the
best location for a computer museum would be where rich computer
people like to live.
That definitely works.
I'd love to hear the typical ratio between exhibit
space and storage/repair
space, for example.
I think our building is something like 10,000 sqft of exhibit space, 2000
repair space, 1000 'admin' (not including document archives). Estimating
storage is more tricky, as we essentially had the run of a completely separate
building so there wasn't really any hard limit. I'd guess at about 10,000 sqft
of useful storage* being needed to house artifacts which weren't residing in
the public display space, though.
* good-dimensioned rooms with useful vertical racking.
cheers
Jules