[vcf-midatlantic] Should the new museum have a name?

Jeffrey Brace ark72axow at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 15:16:05 EST 2016


More ideas:
Vintage Computer Federation's museum historic of computers
Vintage Computer preservation society vintage computer museum of education
and preservation
Happy super fun time museum of old computers


On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> I was thinking... should our new museum have a formal name, as in, "The
> XYZ Place, sponsored by the Vintage Computer Federation"...?
>
> Or if anyone asks, do we just call it VCF Headquarters?
>
> If we do think it should have some name, then what should that name be?
>
> I like how Paul Allen's group calls their place a "living" museum. Of
> course, that word is taken, so we'd need some other word.
>
> Maybe "museum" also isn't the right word. Our home at InfoAge is more of a
> hub and community center for vintage computing in the region. Perhaps, if
> we give it a name, we should think of a word that reflects this.
>
> It would be awesome if the perfect word also started with F to continue
> our theme of the Vintage Computer Federation owning the Vintage Computer
> Festival (East/West), Vintage Computer Forum, and Vintage Computer...
> Funhouse? Fraternity? No, those don't work.
>
> Let's hear some suggestions (real ones please; let's not clog the thread
> with the smart-assery.)
>
> I'm thinking that unless we come up with something GREAT, then we should
> just stick with Vintage Computer Federation as the name for the physical
> space.
>



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