Steve A., Tony, and I had a very productive day moving stuff from the old museum to the new one. In the first two rooms (consumer + business microcomputers), we moved ALL of our artifacts -- systems, books, peripherals, etc. -- into one corner of the new space. Steve has a station wagon and Tony has a cargo van. Both arrived with their vehicles empty, and we made several trips with each car pretty well loaded. All that's left of ours in those two rooms are the white wire shelving attached to the walls. That will be very easy to take down; we'll do it next time. We left behind the ugly metal desks and the carpet. InfoAge plans to dispose of the desks in their own way, which is fine with me! Moving those by ourselves would be very difficult and time-consuming. Next weekend (not yet sure which day), we'll tackle the homebrew-era room. That will be slightly more challenging than today's effort, because the systems are heavier. The only really heavy thing we had to move today was the IBM 5100 dual 8" floppy cabinet. You all know what's looming -- the big stuff. These include two heavy-ass display cases, Bendix G-15 and its desk, George (four full racks), IBM 1130 (computer, printer, card reader, 029 keypunch), PDP-8 + teletype, and I forget the model number of the other double-wide DEC mini -- 785? We need to plan that move carefully and have the right volunteers in place. Basically, we just have to get across the sidewalk, concrete ramp, and gravel-covered blacktop -- a distance of about 25 feet. Then we'll be indoors on perfectly flat concrete. Probably the most important thing we'll need for that move is a couple of people who are very experienced with moving the large stuff.
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Evan Koblentz