As for yesterday -- different kind of visitors -- about a dozen people, all adults. In between tours I made one small improvement that nobody will notice but it's important: there was a black network wire hanging down for the info kiosk, so I put inside some leftover white wiremold that we had in the workshop. Looks better now against the white wall. On Sun, May 26, 2019, 7:38 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Despite the good weather and holiday weekend, there was a dozen visitors and mostly high interest. One kid about 8 years old, who came with his parents claimed to know a lot about vintage computers. I told him, "That's a Lisa". He's like, "I know." He seemed to have some knowledge, seemingly to be from YouTube videos, etc. So he knew some stuff, but only a cursory knowledge. He was quite interested in trying all of them that he only saw on YouTube in person like the Osbourne, IBM PC, Macintosh, Apple 2, etc. He spent time on various computers and I let him try some of them out as best as I could. Not all of them have a lot of software with them.
Another kid, of about 10 years old was with his parents and brother. He came to do a project on computers that he needed to graduate (his words) from elementary school. His father said that this was the only vintage computer museum within 200 miles. I gave him a full tour and let him try out some computers. I showed him how tedious it was to do a simple program on the HP 1000. I taught him the concept of octal in the process.. And I properly biased him towards Commodore computers. I said look at this Amiga from 1985 and look at that Macintosh from 1984, he was like "I would rather have the Amiga." ;) I also showed him how much better the C64 was than the Apple II. :-D He really enjoyed the tour.
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation