3 Aug
2004
3 Aug
'04
1:35 a.m.
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 03:13, William Donzelli wrote:
Well... I keep information on hard disks that come
with old computers if the information is interesting.
For example, I have e-birthday cards sent to an
secretary by her colleagues; emails from her husband
explaining why he was not having an affair; emails
3) How many people have *significant* machines?
One that made a dent in
history, even if it was something as mundane as
an
Apple II or a
PDP-11/34?
Do you mean significant as in it might be a really
common machine, but
that particular one was used for something
interesting / significant /
important?
Personally I like finding stuff like that -
particularly machines (or
even just stray hard disks, floppies, or paper-based
data) which have
been in use at old hardware or software
manufacturers themselves. It's
kinda nice finding 'lost' information, or stuff that
gives an insight
into the company themselves, or provides a snapshot
of what they were
doing at such-and-such a time.
Typically people seem to collect such things for the
hardware itself;
i.e. hard disks or floppies get re-formatted and
paper documentation
gets thrown in the bin. Seems a shame that often no
effort is made to
preserve the data from the time itself, just the
physical hardware. from a mom to a college son that she thought it would
be good for him if he could learn something other than
wasting his time.... But usually it is private and all
I can't do anything with it.
vax, 3900
cheers,
Jules
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