[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Museum on Wheels!

[Martin Flynn]

If the total weight is over 26001 pounds, a CDL is necessary.

Also would need to be aware that some buses (notably school buses) are not geared for highway use , limiting their speed 



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> On Apr 2, 2021, at 9:01 AM, Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
> 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