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<font size=3>Dear DigiBarn News subscribers (and welcome new subscribers
who checked the box on our contact form),<br><br>
Here is your Fall 2007 newsletter (#20). The big news is that on the
weekend of November 3rd-4th is the 10th Vintage Computer Festival, to be
held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. This is the
world's premier community event on computing history and we are happy to
announce that at 1pm on Sunday November 4th will be a special event
featuring the historic LINC (Laboratory INstrument Computer). We will be
holding the last open house of the year on the weekend of October 27th.
More details on all this and more below...<br><br>
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DIGIBARN FALL 2007 NEWS<br><br>
1. LINC Restoration Project and Project and Special Presentation at VCF
10, Nov 3-4th<br>
2. West Coast Computer Faires, call for information<br>
3. Fall Open House<br>
4. Digibarn on CNET (News.com)!<br>
5. We finally posted the Apple@30 event video on Google Video!<br>
6. New Pictorial Tour of the Digibarn<br>
7. Virtual Worlds Timeline project, by Digibarn Curator Bruce Damer<br>
8. New Digibarn Radio Podcasts<br>
9. Digibarn TV new features!<br>
10. Thanks donors! Still looking for...<br>
11. Archive of this and past Newsletters<br>
12. Contacting us or Unsubscribing<br><br>
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1. LINC Restoration Project and Special Presentation at VCF 10, Nov
3-4th<br><br>
The LINC was a true paradigm shift in computing, which in the early 1960s
was dominated by large batch processing and the beginnings of the
time-sharing movement. The LINC, developed by a team at MIT's Lincoln
Laboratory, was the first step in the direction to dedicating computing
resources to interact with a single user, and a machine so versatile with
an addressable graphical display, removable tape storage media, and the
ability to operate it on a lab bench or desk on a day to day basis and
shut it down at night (what a concept!).<br><br>
Join a whole team of original LINC designers and operators who have
toiled in the past year to get a LINC up and running (and shipped out to
the event) to hear about what industry luminaries like Gordon Bell and
Allan Kay describe fondly as "the world's first personal
computer". We will have live demos of the working LINC all weekend
followed by Sunday's panel where the history, significance and
restoration challenges of the LINC will be presented.<br><br>
The LINC event is described at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-11-04-VCF10-LINC/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-11-04-VCF10-LINC/index.html<br>
</a>The LINC history and restoration are at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/index.html<br><br>
</a>The Vintage Computer Festival 10.0:<br>
<a href="http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/</a><br><br>
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2. West Coast Computer Faires, call for information<br><br>
If anyone out there has artifacts from the West Coast Computer Faires
(1977 and later) please get in touch with us at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/forms/comment.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/forms/comment.html</a><br>
(we are hoping to document this most important event in the history of
personal computing)<br><br>
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3. Fall Open House<br><br>
The Digibarn will have one more Open House on Saturday October 27th with
rotating tours at about 1pm and you could show up any time up until about
4pm. For those who wish to we will do dinner in the local brewery
pub/restaurant at about 630-7pm. <br><br>
If you want to come please RSVP to me at bdamer@digitalspace.com and I
will send you the directions. Let me know the time you would like to
come. If you plan to bring artifacts to donate please let me know in
advance (in case I can or can't take them). See scenes from last Summer's
Open Houses at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/eventsvisiting/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/eventsvisiting/index.html<br><br>
</a>Lots of new stuff to show you! Should be fun! See you here!<br><br>
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4. Digibarn on CNET (News.com)!<br><br>
There have been tons of great stories about the Digibarn in the world
news media over the past few months. Some of the best coverage has been
provided by CNET (news.com) including a superb story by Daniel Terdiman
and excellent video visit by Tom Merritt. We hope you will take a look at
both (and the other stories) at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/links/media.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/links/media.html<br><br>
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5. We finally posted the Apple@30 event video on Google Video!<br><br>
Al Lundell and I finally got the three edits of the wonderful Apple@30
event we held at last November's VCF all up, this time on Google Video,
see Woz, Daniel Kottke and the "garage gang" from Apple in
1976, as well as my detailed yet fun introduction at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/06-11-4-VCF9-Apple30/panel/movies.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/06-11-4-VCF9-Apple30/panel/movies.html</a>
<br><br>
The full Apple@30 event, with some never before seen artifacts, is
at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/06-11-4-VCF9-Apple30/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/06-11-4-VCF9-Apple30/index.html<br><br>
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6. New Pictorial Tour of the Digibarn<br><br>
We shot a whole series of photos just before the Digibarn open house
season in Summer 2007 to give you all an idea of the whole new setup (in
case you can't make it in person). The new "virtual tour" is
at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-08-11-DigibarnTour/page_01.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-08-11-DigibarnTour/page_01.htm<br><br>
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7. Virtual Worlds Timeline project, by Digibarn Curator Bruce
Damer<br><br>
Bruce Damer, curator of the Digibarn, has another life as CEO of
DigitalSpace (
<a href="http://www.digitalspace.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digitalspace.com</a> ), a leading company creating open source
3D software that is used by NASA and others to create realistic 3D
virtual worlds for mission design and simulation. Bruce also co-founded
the Contact Consortium back in 1995 to help pioneer the novel concept of
shared graphical Cyberspaces with "avatars" representing users.
Now that the avatar/virtual world medium (through gaming and social
virtual worlds) is becoming a big business, Bruce is embarking on
"The Virtual Worlds Timeline", a project to tell the story of
the birth of the virtual world, from its earliest beginnings in the first
shared graphical spaces (Spacewar! 1961) to its first incarnation as a 3D
multi player game (Maze War, 1974) and on up through the 80s and 90s and
2000s. The Digibarn and many other institutions and people will be
supporting this project in the coming year. If you are interested in the
Virtual Worlds Timeline, take a look at:<br>
<a href="http://www.vwtimeline.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.vwtimeline.org<br><br>
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8. New Digibarn Radio Podcasts<br><br>
Digibarn radio has gone podcast! Thanks to Tommy Cuellar, a Digibarn fan
living in Japan and a budding radio voice talent, we have several more of
the newest Digibarn radio pieces available in podcast format. 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:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/audio/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/audio/index.html<br>
</a>or listen to these and our other pieces using regular MP3 audio
download players. Hear Lee Felsenstein describing the Osborne-1 schematic
(with embedded pictures!).<br><br>
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9. Digibarn TV new features!<br><br>
See several new video features on Digibarn TV, including Steve Wozniak at
the Apple@30 event last November, at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/index.html<br><br>
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10. Thanks donors! Still looking for...<br><br>
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:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/friends/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/friends/index.html<br>
</a>See the ever expanding collection at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/index.html<br><br>
</a>We are still looking for a bunch of good stuff and have updated our
"wish list" at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/help/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/help/index.html<br>
</a>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?).<br><br>
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11. Archive of this and past Newsletters<br><br>
You can find the archive of this and all past Digibarn Newsletters
at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html<br><br>
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12. Contacting Us or Unsubscribing<br><br>
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Thats it for this newsletter, see you in the next one!<br>
Bruce Damer, Curator<br><br>
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