Collections vs. accumulations, was Re: How many collectors?

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote: Same here. If the machines that most of us collect were more common, or were not being snapped up by storage-only collectors, we'd have less trouble finding difficult to find components for our machines, and more people could enjoy interesting computers. I remember going to a hamfest a couple of years ago, and some collector was walking up to table after table, quickly, and offering cash for the entire lot, including things he didn't want. I'm talking about tables with a half dozen of one kind of machine, etc. Another collector at a hamfest was buying everything DEC to stuff into his warehouse; he mentioned having a few thousand computers. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.net 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.