The most exciting part is the that the Tesla will be powered by a very secretive, little known unlimited energy source with origins in vintage computing. The Osborne Perpetual Hype Engine was seized by the government and buried, sinking the company. It has only recently resurfaced in Apple’s iPhone marketing, but with help help of an insider, VCF has acquired this for use in our mobile museum. But I’ve said too much. When the men in black come to take me away, tell my story... On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 9:28 AM Bruce via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
No, no, no! Never ASK! Always *reluctantly *agree. If they catch on you *wanna *do it you'll never get the chance.
True story AFAIK: Back about 30 years I knew a guy who knew a guy who had one of those RR track service vehicles -- a little powered car with both tires and flanged track wheels that is used by RR's to haul employees and small equipment along the tracks. They would drive on the roads to some little-used RR tracks, then go off joyriding along the tracks, having the time of their lives. Whenever they came to a road, one or two of them would get out with flags, stop traffic, and flag the vehicle across before hopping back on. He reported that once a cop even helped stop traffic for them. The *key *was that they had to look *bored* while doing this, so their body language would say, "*This is just my job. I'd rather be anywhere else.*"
Bruce NJ
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 9:05 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
That is so awesome!
Can I drive it?
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 8:54 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We have been planning to have a mobile museum for a long time and Covid-19 has inspired us to implement this plan faster. At first we were looking into getting a bus inexpensively because a lot of the schools needed the extra cash, but we found a great partnering program in our investigation. We have partnered with Tesla for funding so we were able to get an electric bus. So will be renovating our new bus into a mobile vintage computer museum!
We still have to decide on which computers we will have in this museum and periodically change them out. This is a great chance to be able to take our museum *to* the schools instead of the other way around. Plus it is Covid-19 regulation compliant with a limited number of students on the bus at one time. Many schools will be having more cash available for programs like this due to the Covid-19 relief package passed by Congress, so they will have money available for extra programs like ours. Over the next few months we will be retrofitting our bus and hope to have it ready by September.
Other fun ideas are that we will serve period specific snacks to visitors including pop rocks, kool aid and twinkies, etc.
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org