On Feb 7, 2:19Â 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. Â 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!