[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

[W. Bryan Caudle]

This sounds like awesome news, in fact I have had a similar idea of doing something here in VA for a few years now.  Schools, fairs, collaborations with science and children's museums, etc.  However, given the date of the of the news release I will, for now, remain politely skeptical 😊

Meanwhile, this...
https://youtu.be/fltOyddlnOE




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Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

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