MFM Emulator

[Ian Finder]

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:
>
>> 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
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