27 Jun
2000
27 Jun
'00
4:06 p.m.
Had the Evil Lurker been restoring a personal system
with the parts he was looking for, it would not have
bothered me a wit.
On the gripping hand, I know of some "collectors" (as
in they acquire large amounts of stuff without looking for
commercial gain) who will, for example, rip all the boards out of
a working VAX 8650 but leave the chassis behind, because they have
no way of hauling the chassis cabinets nor a place to put them. As
far as I can tell, nobody wins here, because a working 8650 was turned
into a pile of nearly-worthless parts that will simply sit in the basement
for a couple of decades. Does this stop the offenders? Of course not!
Tim.