Doug, Sounds like a busy day. Thanks so much for being docent! It is much appreciated! :) On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
The museum had some good activity today. I was pleased to have Chris Fala come along for the day to co-docent.
Vistors: 1- A couple that used to work for Bell Labs came through and seemed to thoroughly enjoy the tour and exhibits. They related their experience using TI Silent 700s and Unix PCs, particularly regarding using Unix command line tools and toiling with iteratively with nroff/troff trying to get documents. 2- A man with a European accent took the entire tour and had history with installations of IBM 1130, He relayed a story of an installation in... I think he said Turkey... where a practical joke was played on the installer by a coworker. They switch two of the control buttons leading the installer to believe his installation wasn't running properly. This kept him spinning for two full days. 3- Two young women visited after getting the Radio Museum tour. Turns out one had no computer background at all and one used a computer only for gaming. But despite giving them several opportunities to bail if we were telling them things they didn't want to know, they insisted it was all very interesting and they really took in the whole tour. Chris demonstrated how the early home machines were operated in BASIC via the C64. 4- At the end of the day a final man visited who didn't spend too much time but was quite interested in early computer and communications history and was working hard to get his head wrapped around it, taking notes and asking questions. We didn't get past 1969 before he had to bail...
I'm still getting my footing on gathering peoples background and level of interest before I turn on the fire hose... its a good learning Chis may have some other observations to pass on. Go ahead, Chris!
-- Jeff Brace - ark72axow@gmail.com Sent from my Commodore 64