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What kind of machine could one possibly not admit to owning?

What kind of machine could one possibly not admit to owning? That's seems pretty wierd. --John On Monday 02 June 2003 17:28 pm, Tony Duell wrote: > > Over the weekend, a thought has been taking shape inside my head: > > > > What if we made a Grand Unified Union of Computing Collectors? Okay, > > GUUCC doesn't pronounce well. "Geeewkhkh". (shudder) How about > > Collector's International Association... Erm, nope. ;) International > > Computer Artifact Preservation Society! ICAPS sounds good. Or, if you > > totally disagree with it all, send a suggestion. > > > > OK, www.ipacs.org. What should it contain? > > > > -A member's directory with all the computers he/she owns > > My first worry about this is that some machines are now quite valuable > (e.g. on E-bay), and having a public list of owners might attract the > wrong sort of attention... > > There are a few machines that I own that I will not _publically_ admit to > owning (not even on this list), altough it's sometimes fairly obvious > that I've at least worked on one. I know of other collectors who feel > likewise about their rarer artefacts. > > > One would then click the entry link, and open up a window with pictures > > Thus ruling out all peopls who don't have digital cameras or scanners... > > > IPACS would also allow for sharing of storage space, people splitting the > > bill for major warehouses? > > Does this need to be formalised in this way. If 2 collectors are going to > share storage space, I guess they must live pretty close together and > therefore know each other anyway. > > -tony