8 Oct
2015
8 Oct
'15
12:37 p.m.
I consider below a sort of unspoken goal of all responsible folk in this
hobby, but sadly I have been disappointed on occasion:
of course making the collection available in an
database on the web and
digitising the documentation is one of our goals
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:35 PM, simon <simski at dds.nl> wrote:
That sounds like the museum we have at hack42.nl. we
are a hackerspace
with a enormous collection of old computers but we are not open at regular
times. of course making the collection available in an database on the web
and digitising the documentation is one of our goals (besides having fun
with those machines. :-) )
simon
On 08-10-15 20:38, Ian Finder wrote:
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That's my pet project at this point.
We are having some issues with the space so it will probably (hopefully)
open as appointment-only early next year.
The idea is to find trustworthy people who we can give access to the
space to so they can see projects thru from end-to-end on these systems-
learn the development environments, etc.
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.
We also hope to set up reasonable networking and remote access for
systems where it is possible so that people can continue to write software
and reverse engineer things from home, but also visit the machines whenever
they need or want to.
It's a pretty crappy little basement but better than nothing, we will see
what happens.
Perhaps it was premature to spin up the Twitter, we have a ways to go but
are slowly making progress.
Cheers-
- Ian
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Simon Claessen
drukknop.nl