On Feb 7, 2:19 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
A good collection of any one platform, certainly of one as prolific as
the Apple II, would be quite large--larger than could be accommodated
for multiple platforms without prodigious amounts of space.
And, while preservation is clearly a necessary goal, the kind of thing
I envision would encourage use, even experimentation and modification,
which clearly go beyond a museum's charter.
I guess it's a foregone conclusion that the set of people still
interested in active experimentation with these platforms - an arcane
sub-area of an arcane area of a still-arcane field - is way, way too
geographically dispersed to make any single locus for it sustainable.
And it's a pretty high barrier of entry for anyone without a pre-
existing interest, for reasons that go beyond technical.
I've been curious over the years about how the average age of the
community is changing with time. I'm sure it's not increasing at
the rate of a year per year, but it probably isn't much lower.
I'm only 28, so there's one outlier data point, anyway!