Emulators do great things, but they can't replace the visceral experience of touching real old working hardware. Take the example the sound of a modem making a 1200 bps connection, or the grinding noise of a floppy drive zero-track seeking at bootup. Or how inconvenient it is to shuffle floppy disks around. Or the slightly out of focus look of a CRT monitor. (If you focused one area, you put another area out of focus ...)
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 1:22 PM rar <[email protected]> wrote: > > I could imagine a talk/exhibit demonstrating vintage software. > > > The question that I have is how do we exhibit software (Hardware is > challenging enough) > > A quick stab is on our website at > https://museum.syssrc.com/category/software/ where online visitors can run > some of the important 1980's software. > > I would love advice from the crowd on how to teach/display. It is a bit > daunting to just sit down with 30 year old software even though it boots up > in the browser. > > > (Perhaps laptops and monitors/projectors could be obtained locally, not > really interested in in schlepping lots of equipment) > > Bob Roswell > [email protected] > 410-771-5544 ext 4336 > > Computer Museum Highlights > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Michael Brutman via > cctalk > Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2018 3:36 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors needed! > > I'm trying to throw a party, but like any good host I'm worried about the > food and entertainment and if anybody will show up. We already know there is > no food at the museum so I need really, really good entertainment ... Right > now we have seven exhibitors who have formally registered. We really need a > total of 20 to 25 to make this work. We are still a few months away so I'm > not in full scale panic mode yet, but I can feel it coming. ;-0 > > If you are interested in joining the party again, please register. An > overview of what it means to be an exhibitor and the link to the registration > form can be found here: > http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-pnw-exhibitor-registration/ . > > If you participated last year and don't want to do it again, I can understand > that. To keep things interesting I'm trying to minimize the number of repeat > exhibits. However, you can still help in a few > ways: > > - Know somebody who should join the party? Talk to them about exhibiting at > 2019. A little nudging and mentoring from a friend can make it easier to > bring new people in. > > - Have an interesting topic you want to talk about? We're looking for > speakers too ... > > - Can you volunteer a few hours? Many hands makes light work, and also gets > you into the museum for the weekend for free. > > Have any leads on people I should talk to or ideas for making the show > better? Send them along ... I'd be happy to discuss. > > One final note: Contrary to any previously sent communication, we are not > "selling" spots ... I'm actively trying to get rid of the exhibitor fee > entirely, and will guarantee that it will be no more than $20 this year if it > is charged at all. > > > Thanks, > Mike > VCF PNW President, CEO, and Executive Floppy Disk Shuffler
