[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

[Jeffrey Brace]

In all seriousness, yes, this was an April Fool's joke, but it had some
truth to it. Erik Klein, the VCF president, has contemplated this idea and
brought it up a few times and we joke about it, but he really wants to do
it and I feel like the rest of the national board does too. The idea does
have its merits with "bringing the artifacts to the people".  The
difficulty of course is the cost, building and maintaining of such a
vehicle. We would love to do something like this, but we don't
realistically see it happening without a lot of time, effort, money and
dedication.

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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




On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 8:54 AM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey at 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
>
>
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