9 Nov
1999
9 Nov
'99
9:32 a.m.
Rumor has it that CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com may have mentioned these words:
>He's been doing this with various pieces of
equipment (and I do mean
"pieces")
>for a while now. I'm not sure, but I think he
may be the same guy who was
>selling stuff like System/360 control panels, etc, saying "man, you
should
have
seen the rest
of the machine before I scrapped it..".
How is this any worse than many institutional and club computer museums,
as well as individual collector's collections, which have a
CPU but not the disk/tape drives and operating system? I agree, it's a
shame, and in the perfect world there'd be a way to run old systems
forever, but evidently folks' priorities aren't geared to keeping complete
systems.