[ale] geezer notice with meeting idea

[Jim Kinney]

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).

So adding in the artistic uses of the time period for the hardwre would make
for a nice hook.

I think my mom's original MAC II still works.

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.

Aaron - it's time to put in a call to Priscilla Smith! :-)

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.

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM, m-aaron-r <aaron at pd.org> wrote:

> I like this idea a LOT, but I'm thinking it needs to be
> more than a 2 hour geek gathering of breathing moth
> ball fumes.
>
> I'd like to propose that we make it an ART exhibit.
>
> "AnTEques:  The Lost Arts of Technological Innovation"
>
> I'm about 90% certain that I could convince my fellow
> volunteers at the all volunteer Eyedrum Art and Music
> Gallery to host this kind of installation for a week or
> three.  It would be an especially easy if sell we focused
> on presenting particularly creative exhibits of working
> gadgetry and components that could be enjoyed by
> patrons interactively.
>
> Anything involving reviving these old toys is going to require
> some investments of time... BUT...  with a little coordinated
> group effort in making selections of best examples and preparing
> a 12 or 18 exhibits,  this plan would allow us to reach a much
> broader audience and make any time we put into it much
> more worthwhile.
>
> If everyone in this group did a little basement archeology,
> I don't doubt that we could fill the MoMA with interesting
> modern relics of Ar-tech-stic gadgetry.  We could probably
> get to about 80% of that goal with just five people: Jim Kinney,
> Charles Shapiro, Brian Pitts, myself and my techno-trash
> recycler friend Tim.
>
> I'm happy to cary this idea forward if interest is expressed
> from others here.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2010/04/29, at 10:20 , Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> > Having participated in the "strut your geek cred stuff by showing
> > off the dusty crap you used, or worse, still have" discussion, it
> > occurred to me why the typical age of attendance at ALE meetings is
> > rarely including those who cut their computer teeth on Win98.
> >
> > We are a bunch of crusty ol' farts and some of us have truly
> > horrible pack-rat tendencies!
> >
> > Maybe we should have a meeting that is a show-n-tell session of old
> > gear that we can still _make_work_. Antiquated technologies
> > demonstration. Maybe even some ancient Linux on floppy installs that
> > can be done onto that old 386 you know you still have.
> >
> > I'm sure Aaron has an amiga (or twelve) he could demo. :-)
> >
> > Hmm. What is the oldest rig we can scrounge, slap Linux on it and
> > add as many externals as possible and make it all work. Dual monitor
> > i386SX with ata & scsi and floppy with network card, modem, scanner,
> > ham rig, printer, sound card, etc...
> >
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