27 May
2006
27 May
'06
8:09 a.m.
Consider this as a Me Too posting. ....
I have seen what the local libary dumps to save shelf space.
Any book not checked out in a years time is pulled from the shelf and evaluated for
retention every 6 months.
Some get sold at the yearly sale, the rest get sold by the pound.
I have 2 8 foot book stacks full of books and several more boxes full of early books and
software, waiting for a perminate home or at last resort listing on epay.
I was told by two libaries that most of the collection would be thrown out durring the
sorting and the rest would most likely go in a year or two.
The other Bob
On Sat, 27 May 2006 10:36:58, Joe R. wrote:
At 03:04 PM 5/26/06 -0700, you wrote:
>
>A good chunk of my collection of documentation will be going to a
>"Historical Resource Center" (aka Library) that is being built in the area.
What kind of library is this? Does they specialize in
old computers? My
experience with libararies is that they throw out ALL old computer stuff
(anything but MS Windows XP). One of my major sources is the outlet store
for the local county library system. You can't believe the stuff that gets
donated to them and that they turn right around and either throw out or put
in the outlet store. MY advice is to visit their library and see what they
have. If they don't have the kind of stuff that you're donating then it's
probably for a reason!
Joe
>There is also a good chance that at least some of
the hardware will
>eventually go there as well. I'm currently planning on starting to clear
>out some of the documentation starting tomorrow, as I desperatly need the
>storage space. As they don't have a building yet, it will be moving from my
>storage, to thier storage.
>
>Does anyone have any advice as to what kind of stuff should and shouldn't be
>in a "Computer History" section?
>
> Zane
>