[ale] geezer notice with meeting idea

[m-aaron-r]

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...
>
> -- 
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
> Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
> Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits
>
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