Excellent extension idea! Some of the old gear I have was actually used in the creation of art (My SGI Octane was used animating Scooby-Doo in the first live movie with Sara MG of Buffy fame). Another SGI I had was used in the operation of another kind of art - high energy physics (Brian Pitts has it?). I also have some of the (then) high end software (Lightwave, other goodies) that I _may_ be able to hack into a running order (at least show scenes from Babylon 5).<br>
<br>So adding in the artistic uses of the time period for the hardwre would make for a nice hook.<br><br>I think my mom's original MAC II still works.<br><br>This will take a long time to put it all together but I am all for it and willing to put in time to make it happen. <br>
<br>Aaron - it's time to put in a call to Priscilla Smith! :-)<br><br>John Heim - can you assist with a section on how computers are used for the visually impaired? I think you may be ALE's resident expert on this subject. BTW: I'm still stumped on the squashfs problem.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM, m-aaron-r <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org">aaron@pd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I like this idea a LOT, but I'm thinking it needs to be<br>
more than a 2 hour geek gathering of breathing moth<br>
ball fumes.<br>
<br>
I'd like to propose that we make it an ART exhibit.<br>
<br>
"AnTEques: The Lost Arts of Technological Innovation"<br>
<br>
I'm about 90% certain that I could convince my fellow<br>
volunteers at the all volunteer Eyedrum Art and Music<br>
Gallery to host this kind of installation for a week or<br>
three. It would be an especially easy if sell we focused<br>
on presenting particularly creative exhibits of working<br>
gadgetry and components that could be enjoyed by<br>
patrons interactively.<br>
<br>
Anything involving reviving these old toys is going to require<br>
some investments of time... BUT... with a little coordinated<br>
group effort in making selections of best examples and preparing<br>
a 12 or 18 exhibits, this plan would allow us to reach a much<br>
broader audience and make any time we put into it much<br>
more worthwhile.<br>
<br>
If everyone in this group did a little basement archeology,<br>
I don't doubt that we could fill the MoMA with interesting<br>
modern relics of Ar-tech-stic gadgetry. We could probably<br>
get to about 80% of that goal with just five people: Jim Kinney,<br>
Charles Shapiro, Brian Pitts, myself and my techno-trash<br>
recycler friend Tim.<br>
<br>
I'm happy to cary this idea forward if interest is expressed<br>
from others here.<br>
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peace<br>
<font color="#888888">aaron<br>
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On 2010/04/29, at 10:20 , Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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> Having participated in the "strut your geek cred stuff by showing<br>
> off the dusty crap you used, or worse, still have" discussion, it<br>
> occurred to me why the typical age of attendance at ALE meetings is<br>
> rarely including those who cut their computer teeth on Win98.<br>
><br>
> We are a bunch of crusty ol' farts and some of us have truly<br>
> horrible pack-rat tendencies!<br>
><br>
> Maybe we should have a meeting that is a show-n-tell session of old<br>
> gear that we can still _make_work_. Antiquated technologies<br>
> demonstration. Maybe even some ancient Linux on floppy installs that<br>
> can be done onto that old 386 you know you still have.<br>
><br>
> I'm sure Aaron has an amiga (or twelve) he could demo. :-)<br>
><br>
> Hmm. What is the oldest rig we can scrounge, slap Linux on it and<br>
> add as many externals as possible and make it all work. Dual monitor<br>
> i386SX with ata & scsi and floppy with network card, modem, scanner,<br>
> ham rig, printer, sound card, etc...<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> --<br>
> James P. Kinney III<br>
> Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness<br>
> Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits<br>
><br>
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