Thursday 11/09/2023
Cleaned up the apartment and left for Shustek. Only half a day today. Steve and I cataloged the original XO-1, the main product of the One Laptop Per Child project. That was a noble effort to distribute cheap laptops world-wide. It failed for a number of reasons. But they designed a cute little laptop that could be cheaply produced, the XO-1, and Nicholas Negroponte, the guy who founded the whole thing, gave what we were verbally assured was serial #1 to CHM. The machine had no serial numbers visible on the outside. Maybe there was a big Serial 00001 on the inside somewhere. But it ran, which was fun to see.
Then we all headed over to the Yosemite warehouse because they had agreed today was to be a group lunch and “show and tell day”, bring something to show. I had nothing, but I wasn’t alone in that. There were some cool things like a 1950s-era wire recorder that worked, with a collection of pre-recorded spools of wire. Curator Aurora showed off a jacket she made. Stuff like that. Then the volunteers left because the curators had an afternoon meeting.
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