[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

[Bruce]

No, no, no!  Never ASK!
Always *reluctantly *agree.  If they catch on you *wanna *do it you'll
never get the chance.

True story AFAIK:  Back about 30 years I knew a guy who knew a guy who had
one of those RR track service vehicles -- a little powered car with both
tires and flanged track wheels that is used by RR's to haul employees and
small equipment along the tracks.  They would drive on the roads to some
little-used RR tracks, then go off joyriding along the tracks, having the
time of their lives.  Whenever they came to a road, one or two of them
would get out with flags, stop traffic, and flag the vehicle across before
hopping back on.  He reported that once a cop even helped stop traffic for
them.  The *key *was that they had to look *bored* while doing this, so
their body language would say, "*This is just my job.  I'd rather be
anywhere else.*"

Bruce
NJ


On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 9:05 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > =========================================
> > 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
> >
>