5 Aug
2001
5 Aug
'01
8:30 a.m.
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, R. D. Davis 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.
Just understand one thing... Some (and I'm not saying most, just some)
storage-only collectors are just play-with-em collectors in the making.
I'm one of them. As you may remember, I just got into this less than a
year ago, with little knowledge of my target computers aside from that
gained by perusal of the various web sites. So far, my activities within
the hobby have been purely acquisitional. My idea was that hardware,
software, and docs are easier to acquire today than they will be one or
more years from now, and therefore, I should acquire now and play later.
Now that I've pretty much exhausted my storage space and cc budget, I'm
slowly moving into playing mode. I'm also doing trades with people to
exchange my more randomly-acquired items with items more targeted to my
specific interests. I've yet to have my first powering-on ceremony, but
it *is* coming soon!
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com