16 Jul
1997
16 Jul
'97
6:09 a.m.
> What
should be on display considering:
> 1) space limitation
> 2) Mainframes, minis, micros
> 3) What would most attract visitors
> 4) What would most attract funding :)
5- Location, Location, Location!!!
16 Jul
16 Jul
9:45 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Isaac Davis wrote:
Well, I had an idea, and it's just so crazy, it
just might work. How about
contacting an art gallery, and see if they will lend you a couple of rooms,
or however they do their shows. You could get together with a couple of
other collectors and have a "display". We consider these a form of art, and
I'm sure you could pull in a very diverse crowd. Who knows, you might turn
into a travelling museum/art show.
Isaac Davis | Don't throw out that old computer,
While you're at it, you could have a picture on the monitors that would
show everyone the graphics capabilities of the machine. (i.e. have a
digitized Degas on an Amiga, etc.)
L
9:48 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Mr. Self Destruct wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Isaac Davis wrote:
Or some ASCII-art on a PDP...
Well, I had an idea, and it's just so crazy,
it just might work. How about
contacting an art gallery, and see if they will lend you a couple of rooms,
or however they do their shows. You could get together with a couple of
other collectors and have a "display". We consider these a form of art, and
I'm sure you could pull in a very diverse crowd. Who knows, you might turn
into a travelling museum/art show.
Isaac Davis | Don't throw out that old computer,
While you're at it, you could have a picture on the monitors that would
show everyone the graphics capabilities of the machine. (i.e. have a
digitized Degas on an Amiga, etc.)
10:57 a.m.
Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Mr. Self Destruct wrote:
And while we are at it, put one of the music programs on the PDP where
you put an AM radio near it as the output device!
While you're at it, you could have a picture
on the monitors that would
show everyone the graphics capabilities of the machine. (i.e. have a
digitized Degas on an Amiga, etc.)
Or some ASCII-art on a PDP...
1:08 p.m.
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Marvin wrote:
Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
I thought that was the Altair.
It was Dompier's altair, at some meeting. The TX-0 also played music, but
that was through a speaker. And I'm pretty sure the 11s had some sound
capabilities besides ^G...
Or some ASCII-art on a PDP...
And while we are at it, put one of the music programs on the PDP where
you put an AM radio near it as the output device! 
3:59 p.m.
And while we
are at it, put one of the music programs on the PDP where
you put an AM radio near it as the output device!
I thought that was the Altair.
It was Dompier's altair, at some meeting. The TX-0 also played music, but
that was through a speaker. And I'm pretty sure the 11s had some sound
capabilities besides ^G... 
17 Jul
17 Jul
6:02 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
Actually, both are correct. In the old OMSI computer lab we had a fairly
good selection of tunes you could hear thru the AM radio atop the PDP-8.
Later, the Altair picked up on this as well. In fact, I've still got a
original copy of the Dompier programs and docs which I will be adding to
my web pages as time permits... (OCR correcting and all...) B^}
-jim
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Daniel A.
Seagraves wrote:
And while we are at it, put one of the music programs on the PDP where
you put an AM radio near it as the output device!
I thought that was the Altair.
It was Dompier's altair, at some meeting. The TX-0 also played music, but
that was through a speaker. And I'm pretty sure the 11s had some sound
capabilities besides ^G... 
16 Jul
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1:31 p.m.
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:09:50 -0500, Isaac Davis wrote:
Well, I had an idea, and it's just so crazy, it
just might work. How about
contacting an art gallery, and see if they will lend you a couple of rooms,
or however they do their shows. You could get together with a couple of
other collectors and have a "display". We consider these a form of art, and
I'm sure you could pull in a very diverse crowd. Who knows, you might turn
into a travelling museum/art show.
I'm almost there -- I still own the building I ran a gallery for
contemporary art from for about ten years. I closed the gallery a
couple years ago to spend more time on my other work (physics), but I
now use the former gallery's back rooms, where I once stored my
inventory of paintings and sculpture, to house my current collection
of old computers.
Classic computers, especially if opened to display their inner
workings, could make a rather stunning exhibition -- far more
interesting than a lot of contemporary art. :-)
Frank
Frank Peseckis
frank(a)5points.com
http://www.5points.com/
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