CH is pretty nasty right now. We're trying to use my friend's old basement office apartment to get this started. He has been there for years and it's very cheap-- for now.
Seattle has gotten ridiculous, so if the building sells or the rent goes up, most of the gear will get packed away once again. A definite risk factor, but hopefully by then we will at least have produced an active community. Or maybe it's all doomed from the get-go; only one way to find out-- It's all conjecture until I get around to moving my ass... :) We are quite close, just need to clean, move in a few more systems, and figure out the initial access structure. Any local folk interested in participating should ping me off-list. - Ian On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote: > On 10/8/15 11:38 AM, Ian Finder wrote: > > 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. >> >> > Good. There have been false starts for something similar down here for at > least five years > > The problem is real estate has become insanely expensive here, so it is > tough to get traction. > > I have a good friend that lived on CH in the 90's, and it sounds like > things are getting bad up there > too. > > > > -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.fin...@gmail.com
