7 Feb
2004
7 Feb
'04
12:20 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, John Lawson wrote:
I have been active in this hobby for many years,
have owned several very
rare systems and devices, and rescued and put back in service my share of
legacy computing machinery, software and docs and books. I give a lot of
volunteer time as well. I deplore folks who tear up computing history for
'art' if there's a good chance that a system could be 'saved'
otherwise.
There is a special place in Hell for one individual of my acquaintance,
who's "hobby" is collecting just the console panels from mainframes and
minis - the which Hobby he pursues with screwdriver and diagonal cutters.
He sees nothing wrong with that activity, BTW... ;{}
Yep, I vouch for John here and back him up.
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