On 11/06/2015 10:18 AM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Agreed with Jeff and Neil. This museum is for enthusiasts such as ourselves, but to a somewhat larger extent also for the general public, to whom the consumer micros had a larger impact on their lives. With that in mind, perhaps the exhibits should be weighted a bit more heavily in that direction, which would then include unique examples of the major players at the time ( Atari, Commodore, TI, Tandy/RS, Sinclair, IBM, etc.)
That being said, I think it would be vitally important to showcase earlier (DEC, Xerox, Altair, various single-boards, etc.) to show a clear history of what influenced the creation of those "newer" systems. After all, the overall mission is to educate, n'es pas?
Yes but for now, Evan is asking us to trim the list. I'm pretty sure he intends to have rotating displays but it's hard to display everything. Its hard to show the history of computing when it's still going on. can be viewed from the VCF collective's tainted memories and must fit into 24 displays. Some much of the history overlaps and what seems insignificant (Acorn, ARM) is hugely important today. Somehow we get to write history, very cool but hard to do. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies