[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

[Mike Loewen]

    Bob Albrecht was actually doing this in 1971, driving around the Bay Area 
in a VW bus with a PDP8.

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

> The more you guys talk about this, the more I want to actually do it!
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> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:53 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>> What would really be cool is to get one of those car shows on TV that do
>> rebuilds, upgrades and Restorations to get involved.
>> Getting it on TV would be great.
>> A Tesla mobile vintage computer museum.
>> Could be free advertising for the group.
>> Wouldn?t hurt InfoAge either.
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>> Maybe the ?learning channel??
>> Or the history channel - A&E ?
>> ?American Pickers?meet VCF?
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>> 2 coins worth
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>> Sent from:
>> My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
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>>> On Apr 1, 2021, at 6:24 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 10:16 AM Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic <
>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>>>>> On Apr 1, 2021, at 9:04 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
>>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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>>>>> That is so awesome!
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>>>>> Can I drive it?
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>>>> Tesla is providing all the driving AI upgrades at zero cost. There is no
>>>> driver for the bus as I understand it. That space (drivers seat) is
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>>>> used for a workingPDP-11.
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>>> Yes, in fact we do have the driverless option and our idea was to have
>>> docents follow behind the vehicle in a period appropriate Pinto. However
>>> Corey squashed that idea because of liability reasons.
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>>> Since it's electric we can use the batteries to run the exhibits.  The
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>>> will shut down the computers and kick the kids out when the batteries get
>>> low so it can still make it home.
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>>>> -andy
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