[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

[Bill Degnan]

That is so awesome!

Can I drive it?

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 8:54 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> =========================================
> 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
>