9 Aug
2012
9 Aug
'12
4:22 a.m.
Is this sort of what you're talking about or similar...
http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp
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Kevin Parker
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf
Of Colin Eby
Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:49
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Rare systems register
It occurred to me that the classic computer community could more actively adopt the model
used by car collectors to track survival, rarity, and provenance/history of their objects.
Has this been tried? Say something like an HP 211x or early DEC PDPs register for
instance? Has anyone had experience with the success, or utility of this type of thing?
What got me thinking along these lines is the difference between perception and reality
over the relative rarity and value of systems. People often make judgement calls base on
personal affinities rather than anything empirical. I've noted the disparity between
people saying like, 'wow a straight PDP 8', and opposed to ... 'ah that's
just a Xerox word processor.' One measure is their presence in the marketplace. How
many 860s do you really see compare to PDP8s? In my world I actually can put hands on
three of the former and only one of the latter. Just an example of course, but we all talk
about relative rarity with only production statistics to go on, and sometimes not even
that. Oddly, sometimes that is a poor indicator of survival, and therefore rarity.
Thoughts?
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
At 7:22 AM -0700 8/8/12, Al Kossow wrote:
-- Colin
On 8/7/12 11:20 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
I get the impression that he seems to like to stay out of sight. I
typically forward requests like Earl's onto a Reseller I know (which I
just did with his message).
I've pointed out in the past that the fact that there is a rights
holder needs to be advertised, as a lot of people can't figure out who
to contact.
Zane
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Quite a few people on this list know, and they have said it several
times on this list. The rights were bought from Mentec by XX2247, LLC
I think Dave has been busy with other things, though.