PROJECT SUMMARY This project aims to make LOCAL history, in most of its customary representation forms - text, maps and drawings, photographs, sounds and voice, video, artifacts and real-time commented views of architecture - more accessible to all who have access to the Internet globally, and to give access to those who do not, locally. It will do so technologically by using, at its heart, no licence, spread spectrum, wireless data radios connected to both stationary and locally mobile computers, video cams, microphone and speakers. They will link a small local history center (museum) to the Internet at a cost lower that the center could possibly afford if attempted by telephone data lines, and be used in places where data lines can't, as a practical matter, extend to. The project will operate out of and be integrated into the newly completed Old Colorado City Historical Society's History Center located near the heart of the Old Colorado City Historic District of westside Colorado Springs in view of Pikes Peak. Based upon the multi-media small computer system that is being donated to the Society - whose Board of Directors with remarkable forsight several years ago set aside a computer room in the plans for its new Center - a restored 1898 building, the project will: (1) Connect up the computer room at the center by a pair of spread spectrum wireless data radios - at 115kbps - to the Internet server POP of Old Colorado City Communications a half mile away. (2) Outfit the server at the Center with Web page software and history materials in text, graphical, and sound forms that can be accessed over the Internet. (3) Connect the server in the computer room at the Center also to a multi-media laptop computer which will alternatively be: (a) placed in various locations in the main display room of the Center, using a Video Cam pointed at different displays, connected to the main Internet server by wireless LAN. So that those with web access can view, real time, the center's displays. (b) used as a Roaming History laptop, linked to the Center server by Richochet wireless, battery powered, serial-port modem that can be carried throughout Old Colorado City's architectural treasures, and be used in a number of novel ways to give the public access to history via the net. This request is for $15,000 being matched by the equipment donations to the Society, donations of Internet connectivity, and by the sweat-equity of volunteers with history, computer, and donated valuable computer communications expertise. The significance of this project is its creating a model of affordable - yet high enough bandwidth - fixed and mobile Internet connectivity for small scale, local, history museums across the United States.