[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

[Jeffrey Brace]

We have been planning to have a mobile museum for a long time and Covid-19
has inspired us to implement this plan faster. At first we were looking
into getting a bus inexpensively because a lot of the schools needed the
extra cash, but we found a great partnering program in our investigation.
We have partnered with Tesla for funding so we were able to get an electric
bus. So will be renovating our new bus into a mobile vintage computer
museum!

We still have to decide on which computers we will have in this museum and
periodically change them out. This is a great chance to be able to take our
museum *to* the schools instead of the other way around. Plus it is
Covid-19 regulation compliant with a limited number of students on the bus
at one time. Many schools will be having more cash available for programs
like this due to the Covid-19 relief package passed by Congress, so they
will have money available for extra programs like ours. Over the next few
months we will be retrofitting our bus and hope to have it ready by
September.

Other fun ideas are that we will serve period specific snacks to visitors
including pop rocks, kool aid and twinkies, etc.

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Jeff Brace
Vice President & Board Member
Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner
Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
http://www.vcfed.org/
jeffrey at vcfed.org


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Jeff Brace
Vice President & Board Member
Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner
Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
http://www.vcfed.org/
jeffrey at vcfed.org