21 May
2009
21 May
'09
2:18 a.m.
At 7:51 PM -0600 5/20/09, Richard wrote:
I guess for me its different because my intention
always was to create
a physically visitable museum.
I'm making progress on that front. We're moving to a new warehouse
that has enough space that at least I can do a "visible storage" style
exhibit. I'm musing on how best to present the collection.
The museum intent was one that I had years ago, it will be partially
realized when we finally get a building for the library, as part of
my collection will be part of a physical exhibit to go with the
computer history section the library has which I've been building
over the years, and other people have donated stuff for.
Of course computer history, at least at this point, is simply a small
part of the libraries collection. Maybe 1-2%, but it's still very
large, and very DEC oriented. Much of what I've kept are my VMS
manuals and 8-bit doc's, at some point they'll go to the library as
well.
I was thinking of creating an audio tour that people
could listen to
on their portable MP3 players?
That's actually an interesting idea, but how would they get the tour
loaded? They'd just about have to do it prior to visiting.
Zane
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