Small Computer Museum Entities [ Was: Re: MFM Emulator ]

[Ian Finder]

CH is pretty nasty right now. We're trying to use my friend's old basement
office apartment to get this started. He has been there for years and it's
very cheap-- for now.

Seattle has gotten ridiculous, so if the building sells or the rent goes
up, most of the gear will get packed away once again. A definite risk
factor, but hopefully by then we will at least have produced an active
community.

Or maybe it's all doomed from the get-go; only one way to find out-- It's
all conjecture until I get around to moving my ass... :)

We are quite close, just need to clean, move in a few more systems, and
figure out the initial access structure.

Any local folk interested in participating should ping me off-list.

- Ian

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:

> On 10/8/15 11:38 AM, Ian Finder wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>>
> Good. There have been false starts for something similar down here for at
> least five years
>
> The problem is real estate has become insanely expensive here, so it is
> tough to get traction.
>
> I have a good friend that lived on CH in the 90's, and it sounds like
> things are getting bad up there
> too.
>
>
>
>


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   Ian Finder
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   ian.finder at gmail.com