From bdamer at digitalspace.com Sun Aug 3 21:46:04 2008 From: bdamer at digitalspace.com (Bruce Damer) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:46:04 -0700 Subject: [DigiBarn-News] 022: Summer Open House(s) & Much More Message-ID: 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 ****************** 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 ****************** 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 ****************** 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 ****************** 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 ****************** 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 ****************** 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 ****************** 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/ ****************** 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 ****************** 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 ****************** 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!). ****************** 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 ****************** 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?). ****************** 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 ****************** 14. Contacting Us or Unsubscribing The best way to contact us is by our web form at: http://www.digibarn.com/forms/comment.html 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! 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. ****************** Thats it for this newsletter, see you in the next one! Bruce Damer, Curator end digibarn news 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://debbie.digitalspace.com/pipermail/digibarn-computermuseum/attachments/20080803/75c7d0cc/attachment.htm