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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 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:<br>
bdamer@digitalspace.com<br>
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!<br><br>
Find this newsletter in HTML format at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html#022" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/newsletters/index.html#022<br><br>
</a>DETAILED NEWS FOLLOWS<br><br>
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DIGIBARN SUMMER 2008 NEWS<br><br>
1. Open Houses in August<br>
2. LINC Restoration Project and Presentations now on Google Video!<br>
3. Rob Barnaby donates original IMSAI used to create Wordstar, see it
here!<br>
4. John Redant launches a Wikia version of the Digibarn/IEEE Bushy Tree
of computer evolution<br>
5. Severo Ornstein provides rare Mockingbird music composition video from
Xerox PARC (1980)<br>
6. Digibarn on CNET (News.com)!<br>
7. Digibarn to be featured in MacHeads the Movie (upcoming!)<br>
8. RetroMacCast features great Mac history, including the Digibarn!<br>
9. Virtual Worlds Timeline project goes to Internet Archive<br>
10. New Digibarn Radio Podcasts<br>
11. Digibarn TV new features!<br>
12. Thanks donors! Still looking for...<br>
13. Archive of this and past Newsletters<br>
14. Contacting us or Unsubscribing<br><br>
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1. Open Houses in August<br><br>
Optional Saturdays for open houses are: August 16th or 23rd. Let me know
what works for you by contacting me directly at:<br>
bdamer@digitalspace.com<br>
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:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/help/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/help/index.html<br><br>
</a>2. LINC Restoration Project and Presentations now on Google
Video!<br><br>
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!<br><br>
Complete Google Video can be found at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-11-04-VCF10-LINC/video-coverage.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/history/07-11-04-VCF10-LINC/video-coverage.html<br>
</a>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>
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3. Rob Barnaby donates original IMSAI used to create Wordstar, see it
here!<br><br>
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:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/stories/wordstar-rob-barnaby/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/stories/wordstar-rob-barnaby/index.html<br><br>
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4. John Redant launches a Wikia version of the Digibarn/IEEE Bushy Tree
of computer evolution<br><br>
John Redant, creator of the original graphical "Bushy Tree" of
computing evolution which built on the original IEEE "Bushy
Tree" at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/stories/desktop-history/bushytree.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/stories/desktop-history/bushytree.html</a><br>
has taken the tree of computing systems and software to a new dimension
by starting a Wikia. See it here and contribute!<br>
<a href="http://bushytree.wikia.com/wiki/IEEE_Bushy_Tree" eudora="autourl">
http://bushytree.wikia.com/wiki/IEEE_Bushy_Tree</a><br><br>
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5. Severo Ornstein provides rare Mockingbird music composition video from
Xerox PARC (1980)<br><br>
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:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/digibarn-tv/gui-movies/xerox/mockingbird/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/digibarn-tv/gui-movies/xerox/mockingbird/index.html</a>
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6. Digibarn on CNET (News.com)!<br><br>
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:<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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7. Digibarn to be featured in MacHeads the Movie (upcoming!)<br><br>
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:<br>
<a href="http://www.macheadsthemovie.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.macheadsthemovie.com/<br><br>
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8. RetroMacCast features great Mac history, including the Digibarn!<br>
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:<br>
<a href="http://retromaccast.ning.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://retromaccast.ning.com/<br>
</a>And they produced a series of podcasts and images of their Digibarn
visit here:<br>
<a href="http://retromaccast.ning.com/main/search/search?q=digibarn" eudora="autourl">
http://retromaccast.ning.com/main/search/search?q=digibarn<br><br>
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9. Virtual Worlds Timeline project goes to Internet Archive<br>
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:<br>
<a href="http://www.vwtimeline.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.vwtimeline.org<br><br>
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10. Digibarn Radio Podcasts<br><br>
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:<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. For a treat, hear Lee Felsenstein describing the
Osborne-1 schematic (with embedded pictures!).<br><br>
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11. Digibarn TV: new features!<br><br>
See several new video features on Digibarn TV, including all of the CNET
stories and much more at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/index.html<br><br>
</a>******************<br>
12. 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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13. 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>
</a>******************<br>
14. Contacting Us or Unsubscribing<br><br>
The best way to contact us is by our web form at:<br>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/forms/comment.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.digibarn.com/forms/comment.html<br>
</a>the form has a new security feature so you have to enter that
automatically generated nonsense word, it prevents the posting robots
from finding us!<br><br>
If you want to be unsubscribed please let us know through the form above
and provide the email address you are receiving this newsletter on and it
will be taken care of promptly. Digibarn News only comes out two or three
times per year so it shouldn't clog your inbox! Alternatively, simply
reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject.<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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<div>Bruce Damer</div>
<div><a href="http://www.damer.com/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>
http://www.damer.com</a></div>
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<div>Current Projects and Roles at:</div>
<div>DigitalSpace -
<a href="http://www.digitalspace.com/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>
http://www.digitalspace.com</a></div>
<div>Digibarn Computer Museum -
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>
http://www.digibarn.com</a></div>
<div>Elixir Technologies -
<a href="http://www.elixir.com/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.elixir.com</a>
</div>
<div>Contact Consortium & Avatars -
<a href="http://www.ccon.org/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.ccon.org</a>
</div>
<div>Biota.org & EvoGrid -
<a href="http://www.biota.org/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.biota.org</a>
</div>
<div>Virtual Worlds Timeline -
<a href="http://www.vwtimeline.org/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>
http://www.vwtimeline.org</a></div>
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