With great sorrow

[Zane H. Healy]

At 7:51 PM -0600 5/20/09, Richard wrote:
>I guess for me its different because my intention always was to create
>a physically visitable museum.
>
>I'm making progress on that front.  We're moving to a new warehouse
>that has enough space that at least I can do a "visible storage" style
>exhibit.  I'm musing on how best to present the collection.

The museum intent was one that I had years ago, it will be partially 
realized when we finally get a building for the library, as part of 
my collection will be part of a physical exhibit to go with the 
computer history section the library has which I've been building 
over the years, and other people have donated stuff for.

Of course computer history, at least at this point, is simply a small 
part of the libraries collection.  Maybe 1-2%, but it's still very 
large, and very DEC oriented.  Much of what I've kept are my VMS 
manuals and 8-bit doc's, at some point they'll go to the library as 
well.

>I was thinking of creating an audio tour that people could listen to
>on their portable MP3 players?

That's actually an interesting idea, but how would they get the tour 
loaded?  They'd just about have to do it prior to visiting.

Zane



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