Author: Pete Galati
Date: 13:41:15 09/25/00
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On September 25, 2000 at 15:56:25, Pete Galati wrote: >On September 25, 2000 at 13:24:21, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On September 25, 2000 at 10:12:48, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Hi: >>>I love your idea but I also see the difficulties that has been described by some >>>of our pals here. Maybe a virtual museum could do it? I mean, If you collect the >>>stuff and then you take a good number of pictures of any one, detailed pictures >>>from every angle and asociate to that a good amount of info, then problems would >>>be a lot less: you would not need space to show the stuff and we do not need to >>>go to your home to see it. In fact there is a guy that already do that, but his >>>collection is less ambitious than your idea and the photos are just one or two, >>>general views very far of what I mean. Else: there is a geman guy whose name I >>>do not recall now, but he already have around 200 hundred machines. So, if your >>>idea becomes a virtual museum, you have the aditional advantage you can get >>>support from any owner -like the german guy- just asking them to send you the >>>pictures and the info. At least this could be the first step, the easier to >>>accomplish. >>>Fernando >> >> >> >>You are right Fernando. I like the idea of a Virtual museum a lot. >> >>People could really donate the units, or donate them "virtually", why not? A >>donation would be a set of detailled pictures of the unit, together with a copy >>(if it's not illegal) of the operation manual, picture of the original box if >>possible, and a collection of games played by the unit. And whatever other >>interesting information about it (what the press told about it, copies of >>advertisements, history of the unit and so on...). >> >>This way you would get a good feeling of the unit. >> >>I would really like to visit this virtual museum. It would be both fun and >>useful. For example, if you manage to buy a second-hand unit and have no >>information about it, the site could help you to understand how to operate it. >> >> >> >> Christophe > >Virtual donations. That has to be a new concept. I wonder if you can get >virtual income tax deductions on those. > >About the detail pictures mentioned by Fernando. It would be great if there >were thumbnail pictures of all the pieces of each set, and for those who wanted >a more detailed look at that piece, click on the thumbnail pic and get a full >size view. > >To be honest, I've never owned one of those Chess computers, so I have no idea >if they are really worth a closer look, but I have to figure that some are, some >aren't. > >Pete Ok, another posible idea for a virtual museum. Games won and lost against these computers, and in pgn format would be good. Also, if he decides to actually go with a real phyiscal location, given the ability to pull the whole thing together, the addition of a virtual museum would be good too. But the cost of having a real physical location would very likely make the whole project very short lived. Renting, leasing, or owning the space for such a museum would be very expensive, and since such an effort would take large amounts of time, time is expensive too. This could posibly be done by someone who is retired and very well off, but just having a person at the location, that alone would be a gigantic problem the way I see it. Maybe I'm wrong. Pete
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