16 Oct
1999
16 Oct
'99
3:06 a.m.
>One idea that has crossed my mind, but I don't
know if there's any way
>to pull it off: There are obviously lots of "collectors" on E-bay who have
Between newsgroups and this list you have informed a
number of people who
tend to blab, so lots more get key information.
True, but for every well-connected classic computer user (and I rank
all subscribers to classiccmp as "well-connected"!) I'm willing
to bet there are 1000 others who don't have a clue as to what free resources
there are on the web for their old platform, be it a PDP-11 or a
CP/M machine or a IBM 1401 :-).
Ebay is simple, put some up for auction. Its an AD.
I'm more concerned with hooking up users with all the free software
archives that are already out there, than with selling any particular item.
Even many of our "collector" pages, where folks put up pictures of their
favorite old computers, often do a very poor job of connecting random readers
to useful resources.
Am I completely misguided in wanting to reach more people - in particular,
folks we haven't already reached - so that they can more effectively use
their classic computers? Many of our efforts on this list
are confined to the small circle of those who are already "in the know".
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