11 Sep
2016
11 Sep
'16
11:53 a.m.
i relize that ive got a pile of dec myself but nice to get other stuff on
radar to look out for.
siemens went around buying out companies and dismantling them in the
industrial world allot and still does kinda a piss of as some really good
products have been tossed to the curb by them over the yrs my dads an
insturmentation technoligist. so seen all sorts things.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
From: Adrian
Stoness
All seems we see is HP and Dec mostly talked
about
Well, don't forget that i) a lot of people (like me) are interested in
things
they worked with 'back in the day', and for many people, that is very
likely
to be DEC and HP machines, since they were very common, ii) the
conversation
is partially driven by what's available now, and again, because they were
so
common BITD, there are more of them now, and finally iii) the list has a
lot
of US-based members, and they wouldn't have run across (either back then,
or
now) machines from the somewhat obscure European manufacturers.
I don't think anyone looks down on the more obscure machines, in fact I
personally (and many others, I suspect) are very happy to see people paying
attention to them, and my respects to the people who are working to save
them.
Noel