N.N. Thayer wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2:19 pm, "Michael J. Mahon"  wrote:
>> A good collection of any one platform, certainly of one as prolific as
>> the Apple II, would be quite large--larger than could be accommodated
>> for multiple platforms without prodigious amounts of space.
>>
>> And, while preservation is clearly a necessary goal, the kind of thing
>> I envision would encourage use, even experimentation and modification,
>> which clearly go beyond a museum's charter.
> 
> I guess it's a foregone conclusion that the set of people still
> interested in active experimentation with these platforms - an arcane
> sub-area of an arcane area of a still-arcane field - is way, way too
> geographically dispersed to make any single locus for it sustainable.
> And it's a pretty high barrier of entry for anyone without a pre-
> existing interest, for reasons that go beyond technical.

Which is why I would expect most such use to be based on sales of
equipment or lending (maybe that's just sales with an option to
sell back ;-).

My notion was that *some* people would find the occasion to actually
visit the site to use equipment--think of it being collocated with
KFest, for example.

(Hmmm, maybe Sean's garage is version 1.0...  ;-)

>> I've been curious over the years about how the average age of the
>> community is changing with time.  I'm sure it's not increasing at
>> the rate of a year per year, but it probably isn't much lower.
> 
> I'm only 28, so there's one outlier data point, anyway!

Good to know!

-michael

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