Went to the museum today to work on removing batteries and evaluating some of the compact Macs in the warehouse, and had a couple hours off of work to be docent for awhile at the museum and do some cleaning. Didn’t end up getting much done with computers (only got through one!) because the museum was quite busy today. Ended up being able to stay till 5pm. Info age proper had about 60 visitors total today. About half of them came to the VCF museum. When the rain was on people stayed in the main Hotel building…when it let up we got some visitors down our way! Had three generations of family as my first visitors of the day…a Grandfather, son and grandson. They were very interested and spent a good 30 minutes taking the tour and asking questions. I had two very large families (6 and 9 people respectively) that came in. One early and one late in the day. Both stayed for a good 20+ minutes. The first had grandfather, son and grandson as well…the grandfather was excited to see the IBM and the Digital VAX as he worked on those machines. He stayed 10 minutes after the rest of the family went outside :-) In between I had several couples come in with mild to high interest and a mother and son who stayed for almost 40 minutes. The son was very interested (about 9 years old) and the mother was thrilled to see the machines of her youth (micros) I had a few other couples come through that started off browsing, not wanting the guided tour, and then came and asked for more information and took the whole ,02 tour anyway! I honestly did not have any low interest groups/individuals today. Everyone asked lots of questions, stopped at the machines they either owned, used in school or worked on at some point in their careers. I did not have a single set of drive by tourists today! I started in the Signal Corp room sweeping up and made my way down the hall to the front door when my first visitors came. I next planned to sweep up the museum but never made it through with the broom as each time I’d start I got another group of visitors. I have the first of three macs to remove the batteries and log serial #s etc. Over the next few months I hope to have all the macs and Apple IIs done (obviously only the macs have batteries to remove except the IIgs, and the last of those has had it removed) Great day for my first (unofficial) day as Docent! Tony Bogan
Great job, Tony! Thank you. On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 6:14 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Went to the museum today to work on removing batteries and evaluating some of the compact Macs in the warehouse, and had a couple hours off of work to be docent for awhile at the museum and do some cleaning. Didn’t end up getting much done with computers (only got through one!) because the museum was quite busy today. Ended up being able to stay till 5pm.
Info age proper had about 60 visitors total today. About half of them came to the VCF museum. When the rain was on people stayed in the main Hotel building…when it let up we got some visitors down our way!
Had three generations of family as my first visitors of the day…a Grandfather, son and grandson. They were very interested and spent a good 30 minutes taking the tour and asking questions. I had two very large families (6 and 9 people respectively) that came in. One early and one late in the day. Both stayed for a good 20+ minutes. The first had grandfather, son and grandson as well…the grandfather was excited to see the IBM and the Digital VAX as he worked on those machines. He stayed 10 minutes after the rest of the family went outside :-)
In between I had several couples come in with mild to high interest and a mother and son who stayed for almost 40 minutes. The son was very interested (about 9 years old) and the mother was thrilled to see the machines of her youth (micros)
I had a few other couples come through that started off browsing, not wanting the guided tour, and then came and asked for more information and took the whole ,02 tour anyway! I honestly did not have any low interest groups/individuals today. Everyone asked lots of questions, stopped at the machines they either owned, used in school or worked on at some point in their careers. I did not have a single set of drive by tourists today!
I started in the Signal Corp room sweeping up and made my way down the hall to the front door when my first visitors came. I next planned to sweep up the museum but never made it through with the broom as each time I’d start I got another group of visitors.
I have the first of three macs to remove the batteries and log serial #s etc. Over the next few months I hope to have all the macs and Apple IIs done (obviously only the macs have batteries to remove except the IIgs, and the last of those has had it removed)
Great day for my first (unofficial) day as Docent!
Tony Bogan
hear hear! On 1/28/2018 6:47 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Great job, Tony! Thank you.
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 6:14 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Went to the museum today to work on removing batteries and evaluating some of the compact Macs in the warehouse, and had a couple hours off of work to be docent for awhile at the museum and do some cleaning. Didn’t end up getting much done with computers (only got through one!) because the museum was quite busy today. Ended up being able to stay till 5pm.
Info age proper had about 60 visitors total today. About half of them came to the VCF museum. When the rain was on people stayed in the main Hotel building…when it let up we got some visitors down our way!
Had three generations of family as my first visitors of the day…a Grandfather, son and grandson. They were very interested and spent a good 30 minutes taking the tour and asking questions. I had two very large families (6 and 9 people respectively) that came in. One early and one late in the day. Both stayed for a good 20+ minutes. The first had grandfather, son and grandson as well…the grandfather was excited to see the IBM and the Digital VAX as he worked on those machines. He stayed 10 minutes after the rest of the family went outside :-)
In between I had several couples come in with mild to high interest and a mother and son who stayed for almost 40 minutes. The son was very interested (about 9 years old) and the mother was thrilled to see the machines of her youth (micros)
I had a few other couples come through that started off browsing, not wanting the guided tour, and then came and asked for more information and took the whole ,02 tour anyway! I honestly did not have any low interest groups/individuals today. Everyone asked lots of questions, stopped at the machines they either owned, used in school or worked on at some point in their careers. I did not have a single set of drive by tourists today!
I started in the Signal Corp room sweeping up and made my way down the hall to the front door when my first visitors came. I next planned to sweep up the museum but never made it through with the broom as each time I’d start I got another group of visitors.
I have the first of three macs to remove the batteries and log serial #s etc. Over the next few months I hope to have all the macs and Apple IIs done (obviously only the macs have batteries to remove except the IIgs, and the last of those has had it removed)
Great day for my first (unofficial) day as Docent!
Tony Bogan
Great job Tony! You are such a hard worker! I really appreciate you stepping in to be docent. I think the high visitor count was due to an Infoage event about the Space Shuttle Challenger. I’m certainly glad that there were a lot of visitors to VCF, high interest visitors and that you were there to give tours. On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 6:15 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Went to the museum today to work on removing batteries and evaluating some of the compact Macs in the warehouse, and had a couple hours off of work to be docent for awhile at the museum and do some cleaning. Didn’t end up getting much done with computers (only got through one!) because the museum was quite busy today. Ended up being able to stay till 5pm.
Info age proper had about 60 visitors total today. About half of them came to the VCF museum. When the rain was on people stayed in the main Hotel building…when it let up we got some visitors down our way!
Had three generations of family as my first visitors of the day…a Grandfather, son and grandson. They were very interested and spent a good 30 minutes taking the tour and asking questions. I had two very large families (6 and 9 people respectively) that came in. One early and one late in the day. Both stayed for a good 20+ minutes. The first had grandfather, son and grandson as well…the grandfather was excited to see the IBM and the Digital VAX as he worked on those machines. He stayed 10 minutes after the rest of the family went outside :-)
In between I had several couples come in with mild to high interest and a mother and son who stayed for almost 40 minutes. The son was very interested (about 9 years old) and the mother was thrilled to see the machines of her youth (micros)
I had a few other couples come through that started off browsing, not wanting the guided tour, and then came and asked for more information and took the whole ,02 tour anyway! I honestly did not have any low interest groups/individuals today. Everyone asked lots of questions, stopped at the machines they either owned, used in school or worked on at some point in their careers. I did not have a single set of drive by tourists today!
I started in the Signal Corp room sweeping up and made my way down the hall to the front door when my first visitors came. I next planned to sweep up the museum but never made it through with the broom as each time I’d start I got another group of visitors.
I have the first of three macs to remove the batteries and log serial #s etc. Over the next few months I hope to have all the macs and Apple IIs done (obviously only the macs have batteries to remove except the IIgs, and the last of those has had it removed)
Great day for my first (unofficial) day as Docent!
Tony Bogan
Jeff, Per the Diana Site team, they had ~14 visitors for the lecture. Martin On 1/28/2018 8:26 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Great job Tony! You are such a hard worker! I really appreciate you stepping in to be docent. I think the high visitor count was due to an Infoage event about the Space Shuttle Challenger. I’m certainly glad that there were a lot of visitors to VCF, high interest visitors and that you were there to give tours.
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 6:15 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Went to the museum today to work on removing batteries and evaluating some of the compact Macs in the warehouse, and had a couple hours off of work to be docent for awhile at the museum and do some cleaning. Didn’t end up getting much done with computers (only got through one!) because the museum was quite busy today. Ended up being able to stay till 5pm.
Info age proper had about 60 visitors total today. About half of them came to the VCF museum. When the rain was on people stayed in the main Hotel building…when it let up we got some visitors down our way!
Had three generations of family as my first visitors of the day…a Grandfather, son and grandson. They were very interested and spent a good 30 minutes taking the tour and asking questions. I had two very large families (6 and 9 people respectively) that came in. One early and one late in the day. Both stayed for a good 20+ minutes. The first had grandfather, son and grandson as well…the grandfather was excited to see the IBM and the Digital VAX as he worked on those machines. He stayed 10 minutes after the rest of the family went outside :-)
In between I had several couples come in with mild to high interest and a mother and son who stayed for almost 40 minutes. The son was very interested (about 9 years old) and the mother was thrilled to see the machines of her youth (micros)
I had a few other couples come through that started off browsing, not wanting the guided tour, and then came and asked for more information and took the whole ,02 tour anyway! I honestly did not have any low interest groups/individuals today. Everyone asked lots of questions, stopped at the machines they either owned, used in school or worked on at some point in their careers. I did not have a single set of drive by tourists today!
I started in the Signal Corp room sweeping up and made my way down the hall to the front door when my first visitors came. I next planned to sweep up the museum but never made it through with the broom as each time I’d start I got another group of visitors.
I have the first of three macs to remove the batteries and log serial #s etc. Over the next few months I hope to have all the macs and Apple IIs done (obviously only the macs have batteries to remove except the IIgs, and the last of those has had it removed)
Great day for my first (unofficial) day as Docent!
Tony Bogan
On Jan 28, 2018, at 8:55 PM, Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Jeff,
Per the Diana Site team, they had ~14 visitors for the lecture.
Martin
I had a few visitors show up before 2pm that I told about the lecture going on....don't know if any went or not.....but most people came from about 2:30-4:30 so by the time they were done with me it would have been too late. Also, I have to say there were a number of uninterested visitors, but I never expected the 3,4,5 and six year olds to have much interest beyond trying to touch everything and anything they could ;-) Tony
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