[DigiBarn-News] 022: Summer Open House(s) & Much More

Mon Aug 4 04:46:04 UTC 2008

Dear DigiBarn News subscribers (and welcome new subscribers who 
checked the box on our contact form),

Here is your Summer 2008 newsletter (#22). The big news is that we 
are holding open houses! There are two Saturdays I am considering for 
open houses in August, Saturday August 16th AND/OR Saturday August 
23rd. If you want to come to one (or both) of these open houses 
please contact me directly at:
bdamer at digitalspace.com
and let me know your preference! A number of you have asked about 
coming to visit so I hope one of these days works for you! If not 
please let me know and I will try to accomodate!

Find this newsletter in HTML format at:
http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html#022

DETAILED NEWS FOLLOWS

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DIGIBARN SUMMER 2008 NEWS

1. Open Houses in August
2. LINC Restoration Project and Presentations now on Google Video!
3. Rob Barnaby donates original IMSAI used to create Wordstar, see it here!
4. John Redant launches a Wikia version of the Digibarn/IEEE Bushy 
Tree of computer evolution
5. Severo Ornstein provides rare Mockingbird music composition video 
from Xerox PARC (1980)
6. Digibarn on CNET (News.com)!
7. Digibarn to be featured in MacHeads the Movie (upcoming!)
8. RetroMacCast features great Mac history, including the Digibarn!
9. Virtual Worlds Timeline project goes to Internet Archive
10. New Digibarn Radio Podcasts
11. Digibarn TV new features!
12. Thanks donors! Still looking for...
13. Archive of this and past Newsletters
14. Contacting us or Unsubscribing

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1. Open Houses in August

Optional Saturdays for open houses are: August 16th or 23rd. Let me 
know what works for you by contacting me directly at:
bdamer at digitalspace.com
I will send directions to here depending on the numbers for each or 
both dates. A good time to arrive is just after lunch. If you are 
part of the regular Digibarn crew and want to volunteer docent, 
please get in touch with me in advance. If you want to bring a 
donation of hardware or other artifacts you must clear it with me in 
advance! The current "wish list" is posted at:
http://www.digibarn.com/help/index.html

2. LINC Restoration Project and Presentations now on Google Video!

The restoration of the LINC and the event we held at the Computer 
History Museum as part of the Vintage Computer Festival back in 
November of last year is now produced as a DVD and as a complete set 
of videos on Google! See how "the paradigm shifted" back in 1962!

Complete Google Video can be found at:
http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-11-04-VCF10-LINC/video-coverage.html
The LINC event is described at:
http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-11-04-VCF10-LINC/index.html
The LINC history and restoration are at:
http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/index.html

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3. Rob Barnaby donates original IMSAI used to create Wordstar, see it here!

Rob Barnaby is one of the pioneers of personal computing, having 
helped get CP/M running on its first machine at IMSAI and then later 
creating some of the first text editors leading up to WordStar, the 
first commercially successful word processing software for 
microcomputers. Rob visited the Digibarn in June 2008 to be 
interviewed by Bruce Damer and Al Lundell and to donate his IMSAI 
development machine used for the creation of the first version of 
WordStar for Micropro. See everything as it unfolded at:
http://www.digibarn.com/stories/wordstar-rob-barnaby/index.html

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4. John Redant launches a Wikia version of the Digibarn/IEEE Bushy 
Tree of computer evolution

John Redant, creator of the original graphical "Bushy Tree" of 
computing evolution which built on the original IEEE "Bushy Tree" at:
http://www.digibarn.com/stories/desktop-history/bushytree.html
has taken the tree of computing systems and software to a new 
dimension by starting a Wikia. See it here and contribute!
http://bushytree.wikia.com/wiki/IEEE_Bushy_Tree

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5. Severo Ornstein provides rare Mockingbird music composition video 
from Xerox PARC (1980)

Severo Ornstein, instigator of the LINC restoration and event of 
2007, has an extensive career history spanning some of the best years 
of innovation at Xerox PARC. In 1980 working with John T. Maxell he 
created Mockingbird, the first screen-based computer music scoring 
system. See movies of Mockinbird in action on the Xerox Dorado at the 
following Digibarn site:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/digibarn-tv/gui-movies/xerox/mockingbird/index.html

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6. Digibarn on CNET (News.com)!

Tom Merritt and his crew from CNET (news.com) is running a web-based 
video documentary series about the Digibarn called "Tales of Silicon 
Valley" and in April 2008 they featured Digibarn co-founders Bruce 
Damer and Al Lundell on CNET TV Live. Find all this and other 
coverage of the Digibarn in the news at:
http://www.digibarn.com/links/media.html

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7. Digibarn to be featured in MacHeads the Movie (upcoming!)

Kobi Shely and his team from Chimp 65 Productions have pulled 
together a super movie about the culture around the Macintosh and 
Apple computer. See it soon in select theaters and in online release. 
This film features both Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt in the Digibarn 
and on the farm here! Details at:
http://www.macheadsthemovie.com/

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8. RetroMacCast features great Mac history, including the Digibarn!
Around the time of Macworld in January we were graced by a visit from 
James and John of the RetroMacCast, a leading podcast on the history 
of the Mac, Apple and much more. See the RetroMacCast and sign up to 
their feed at:
http://retromaccast.ning.com/
And they produced a series of podcasts and images of their Digibarn visit here:
http://retromaccast.ning.com/main/search/search?q=digibarn

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9. Virtual Worlds Timeline project goes to Internet Archive
Digibarn Curator Bruce Damer is also a pioneer of the virtual worlds 
and "avatar" medium and has taken it upon himself (thats me!) to 
document the birth and evolution of that medium. He is working with 
Stanford and the Web History Center and a number of other 
institutions to pull together the history of virtual worlds (multi 
user spaces connected by networks). Recently Bruce visited the 
Internet Archive in San Francisco where he contributed 125 digitized 
movies of virtual worlds from the 1970s-2000s including the Avatars 
conference series he produced in the mid to late 1990s. For more 
information about the Virtual Worlds Timeline project see:
http://www.vwtimeline.org

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10. Digibarn Radio Podcasts

Digibarn radio is a podcast of voices from computing history. 
Subscribe through the iTunes store at Apple for free, just enter the 
term Digibarn Radio. You can also sign up directly at the Digibarn 
Radio page at:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/audio/index.html
or listen to these and our other pieces using regular MP3 audio 
download players. For a treat, hear Lee Felsenstein describing the 
Osborne-1 schematic (with embedded pictures!).

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11. Digibarn TV: new features!

See several new video features on Digibarn TV, including all of the 
CNET stories and much more at:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/index.html

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12. Thanks donors! Still looking for...

A lot of great donations came in since the springtime and we would 
like to thank all the many Friends of the Digibarn who contributed:
http://www.digibarn.com/friends/index.html
See the ever expanding collection at:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/index.html

We are still looking for a bunch of good stuff and have updated our 
"wish list" at:
http://www.digibarn.com/help/index.html
so check it out and see if you have anything there we are desperately 
seeking (weird prototypes or front bezel for a Lisa 1 anyone?).

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13. Archive of this and past Newsletters

You can find the archive of this and all past Digibarn Newsletters at:
http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html

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Thats it for this newsletter, see you in the next one!
Bruce Damer, Curator

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Bruce Damer
http://www.damer.com

Current Projects and Roles at:
DigitalSpace - http://www.digitalspace.com
Digibarn Computer Museum - http://www.digibarn.com
Elixir Technologies - http://www.elixir.com
Contact Consortium & Avatars - http://www.ccon.org
Biota.org & EvoGrid - http://www.biota.org
Virtual Worlds Timeline - http://www.vwtimeline.org

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