13 Aug
2011
13 Aug
'11
1:07 p.m.
On 08/12/2011 06:03 PM, steven stengel wrote:
A while back I asked for other collectors who would be
receptive to these orphaned systems, and over 60 people have signed-up so far!
But entire parts of the US are still open - the East coast is covered pretty well, but
west of the Mississippi River these is almost no one until the coast. I've got Nathan
in Iowa, Richard in SLC, but that's about it.
Wouldn't it be nifty to have a published list that people can find via
Google/Bing/Yaddasearch when they're looking to find a new home for
classic gear? Bill Yakowenko used to maintain such a list
(http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/classiccmp/ccrs_list.html
<http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Eyakowenk/classiccmp/ccrs_list.html>) and I
know I received several fruitful inquiries from it. Not clear how
actively Bill's been maintaining it the past few years, though...
Not trying to take anything away from your efforts, Steve, direct
personal referrals are generally going to be higher quality. It's just
been bothering me as I tried to remember where that list was and who had
been maintaining it.
Thoughts? This is something that could be linked to from all our many
different retrocomputing, collecting, and museum sites, which would then
drive it up in most search results - giving us a slightly better chance
to save more machines.
--/S/.