Hello again local members: The restoration training is being postponed to accommodate our trainers. Look for a new date announcement soon. Let me disclose why this is being done now. We are planning for a new huge museum space at Info Age. I believe we are going to have to bring to bear an incredible amount of artifacts from the warehouse that need extensive restoration. The only way I see this as possible is if we TRAIN up a host of restorers to work en-mass on restorations of our donated artifacts. This is your opportunity to learn from our time-honored experts and work on historic computer equipment you probably would never otherwise see "in the flesh" let along touch, let alone disassemble, let alone restore to functional and presentable condition. To that end, if approved fully (I'm only doing research work here, not going around the steering committee), we will be staffing up and equipping to do this work. Please express your interest now so I can see if this plan is even viable. Pass this along or my email address to anyone off list that you should be involved. Your's truly DC douglas.crawford@vcfed.org Steering Committee member, Warehouse & Museum Manager.
On Fri, Sep 2, 2022, 1:24 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote:
Hello Local Members:
If you are new to vintage computers and would like to get started learning -in person- how to properly handle valuable artifacts we have something coming up for you.
We are working on setting up a session of training in combination with our quest to have work done on our PDP-8. We have invited Dave Gesswein to come in and work on the PDP-8 and possibly other equipment too. Dave is figuring out his availability.
We may do this as a replacement of the Sept 10/11 workshop. Many of our die-hard repairers are going to be away so the workshop was canceled. But I'm willing to bet a lot of hobbyists are not going to mid-west, and they might want this training if we offered it.
Comments welcome here in response, but if you are flat out interested in this kind of training, let me know off-list.
Thanks very much
Douglas Crawford Mid-Atlantic Museum Manager