[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

[Bruce]

Jeff:

Consider scaling back the idea.

Instead of any sort of vehicle (the major cost, especially considering
insurance, licensing, maintenance, storage, repairs, etc.), consider
putting together some portable containers or crates, possibly modeled upon
the ones used by professional musicians on road tours.

There are lots of ways to do this, but one way would be to have two
displays in one crate, connected by hinges on one side and clasps on the
other.  (Putting this hardware on the corners would offset the displays by
90 degrees, should that matter.) Place the crates on folding tables,
trestles, or intrinsic fold-out legs to raise them to a useful height.

Now you just need a vehicle to carry them in, and if nobody in the club has
one, rent it.  All the complications of a club owning a vehicle (and they
may be considerable) are avoided this way.

Bruce
NJ


On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 8:03 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> =========================================
> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > =========================================
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>