Jules Richardson wrote on "Digital Archaeology of the Microcomputer, 1974-1994

In article <45AF9D43.4050800 at bitsavers.org>, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes: Well, if you adopt the "only historically significant" things are to be collected mantra, you never would have had something like the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. *All* of the stuff he amassed for that collection was considered not historically significant at the time. Now its amazing to be able to walk down an aisle and see the evolution of the sewing machine, or the dishwasher or the clothes washer/dryer, etc. I think there are some things you can say have obvious historical value. Others aren't historically significant *by themselves* but allow you to make a realistic historical portait because they represent samples of devices over time. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>