That sounds like the museum we have at hack42.nl. we are a hackerspace
with a enormous collection of old computers but we are not open at
regular times. of course making the collection available in an database
on the web and digitising the documentation is one of our goals (besides
having fun with those machines. :-) )
simon
On 08-10-15 20:38, Ian Finder wrote:
That's my pet project at this point.
We are having some issues with the space so it will probably (hopefully) open
as appointment-only early next year.
The idea is to find trustworthy people who we can give access to the space to
so they can see projects thru from end-to-end on these systems- learn the
development environments, etc.
We do not intend to overlap with a big, professional museum like CHM or LCM.
Rather think of this as a kind of a maker-space for old systems; There is a lot
of interest in Seattle- largely people from the software industry- who would
love to code something on a real PDP 11, Symbolics or a Xerox or a 3B2 / BLIT,
but aren't equipped to handle care and feeding of these sorts of machines.
We also hope to set up reasonable networking and remote access for systems
where it is possible so that people can continue to write software and reverse
engineer things from home, but also visit the machines whenever they need or
want to.
It's a pretty crappy little basement but better than nothing, we will see what
happens.
Perhaps it was premature to spin up the Twitter, we have a ways to go but are
slowly making progress.
Cheers-
- Ian
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Met vriendelijke Groet,
Simon Claessen
drukknop.nl
