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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:32:21 -0400
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Neil Waldhauer wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:19:05 -0400, "madodel"
> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> 
>> Please disregard this post.
> 
> Well I tried to disregard this post, but I couldn't. I enjoyed having the OS/2
> museum at Warpstock. Thanks, Mark, for collecting all the items in the museum,
> and for allowing Warpstock to display them.
> 
> Neil

Thanks Neil.  Though I bought all the systems off eBay, all of the software 
was donated.  A huge amount came from Tim Sipples, but a lot of others have 
donated as well.

One of the things I have spoken to Lewis about is having one or two more 
branches of the museum so that it could be more easily moved to the chosen 
Warpstock location.  Right now it takes some planning and we are limited as 
to how much we can ship long distances because of cost and the risk of 
damage and loss.  If we had a cache of material on both coasts and maybe 
somewhere central/south or in Canada we could display a lot more at the 
event.  We just need some one and some place to store the items between 
shows.  Here I found a soon to be opened computer museum to store and 
hopefully display the museum items in between shows.

If anyone has access to or is interested in collecting and maintaining some 
old PS/2 systems and OS/2 software and memorabilia for display at future 
Warpstock events please contact me.  Also if anyone has any old but still 
working PS/2 systems and software that they are looking for a good home 
for, feel free to contact me as well.  Any duplicates will be put aside in 
the hopes of having multiple sites, so even if we already have it in the 
collection a donation is appreciated.  If anyone is reasonably close to the 
Jersey shore (I'm two hours away myself), I could use help in cataloging 
our current collection and also with working on the museum building itself.

Sorry to continue this thread.  If anyone has comments, suggestions or 
offers to help with this project please email me.

Mark


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  Warpstock 2006 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 12-15th, 
http://www.warpstock.org
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