[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

[jsalzman at gmail.com]

Sometimes, an old bus can be bought for little money. One could easily be
gutted and fitted with anything we could arrange to showcase in it.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/180150850286348/

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 8:45 AM Bruce via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>