2 Jun
2003
2 Jun
'03
10:26 a.m.
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