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 <[email protected]> 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 >> > > -- > Met vriendelijke Groet, > > Simon Claessen > drukknop.nl > -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS [email protected]
