DigiBarn panel during the VCF 6.0
"The Trials and Joys of Vintage Computer Collecting"
Lundell & Damer
Oct 12 2003

On October 12th, 2003 at the Vintage Computer Festival 6.0 DigiBarn co-founders Bruce Damer and Allan Lundell presented a session on the Joys and Trials of Vintage Computer Collecting. We think you will enjoy hearing and seeing this session. Thanks to DigiBarn videomaker Allan Lundell and his partner Sun McNamee and yours truly DigiBarn curator Bruce Damer, we have great video and audio of this historic event. We also have a great set of images of the panel below.

Video and Audio of the panel

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Images of the panel

The introductory points to the seeions (with a bit of humor) are below, followed by photos of the session happening (thanks to my love Galen Brandt for taking such great pictures).

Main points in the "Joys and Trials of Vintage Computer Collecting":

1. Spotting the really valuable (quirky rare stuff) donations and how to best handle them and the kind people who bequeath them on to you.
2. How to gracefully decline other people's offers of donations while getting those same folks to volunteer to contribute their stories (the real valuable stuff in computing history is stories).
3. How to handle the press and put on a great open house without driving your spouse or neighbors crazy.. and yet have all the stuff carefully arranged so that it makes sense (meaningful groupings and timelines, mixing in documentation, schwag and good conversations pieces, and giving good tours whilst recording people for the historic record).
4. How to create a web site for your collection that folks can actually use and contribute to (ie: lay it out as a newspaper that can be read in one long sitting) and
5. How to one day "grow up" and become more professional with a long term museum type of vision without losing the fun and community aspects that draw in the right people and best contributions.

DSC02184.JPG	Bruce talks about how it all got started	DSC02186.JPG
DSC02188.JPG	DSC02189.JPG	Allan bringing in the televideo
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Allan explaing the Woz demo	DSC02198.JPG	DSC02199.JPG
DSC02200.JPG	Woz invitation to the US festival in '82	Running live off an Apple II!
DSC02203.JPG	DSC02204.JPG	Bruce runs DigiBarn tour video
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Calmset GSR demo (game)	DSC02211.JPG	DSC02212.JPG

Allan Lundell gets the last point

Return to the DigiBarn's coverage of the Vintage Computer Festival 6.0