[vcf-midatlantic] Museum Report for Sat 2/25/17

[Jeffrey Brace]

Doug,

Sounds like a busy day. Thanks so much for being docent! It is much
appreciated! :)

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> The museum had some good activity today.
> I was pleased to have Chris Fala come along for the day to co-docent.
>
> Vistors:
> 1-  A couple that used to work for Bell Labs came through and seemed to
> thoroughly enjoy the tour and exhibits.
>      They related their experience using TI Silent 700s and Unix PCs,
> particularly regarding using Unix command line
>      tools and toiling with iteratively with nroff/troff trying to get
> documents.
> 2- A man with a European accent took the entire tour and had history with
> installations of IBM 1130,
>      He relayed a story of an installation in... I think he said Turkey...
> where a practical joke was played on the installer
>      by a coworker. They switch two of the control buttons leading the
> installer to believe his installation wasn't running
>      properly. This kept him spinning for two full days.
> 3- Two young women visited after getting the Radio Museum tour.
>      Turns out one had no computer background at all and one used a
> computer
>      only for gaming.  But despite giving them several opportunities to
> bail if we were telling them things they
>      didn't want to know, they insisted it was all very interesting and
> they really took in the whole tour.
>      Chris demonstrated how the early home machines were operated in BASIC
> via the C64.
> 4-  At the end of the day a final man visited who didn't spend too much
> time but was quite interested in
>       early computer and communications history and was working hard to
> get his head wrapped around it,
>       taking notes and asking questions.  We didn't get past 1969 before
> he had to bail...
>
> I'm still getting my footing on gathering peoples background and level of
> interest before I turn on the
> fire hose... its a good learning
> Chis may have some other observations to pass on.
> Go ahead, Chris!
>



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