24 Jul
2001
24 Jul
'01
2:46 p.m.
Hi all....
Well no news on when this will be in the paper yet but I am just praying it
wont be a kinda headline like:
SUBURBAN WEIRDO IS PILING UP OLD COMPUTERS IN BASEMENT - WIFE SAYS : "ITS ME
OR THE MACHINES!!!"
No I am just kidding, its a very serious well established french language
newspaper with a large circulation here in Quebec....LaPresse...but when?
If the pictures are bad (I had finished work very late that night and got 4
hours of sleep before reporter came) I wont talk about it ever again...
They also interviewed a console collector friend....
The lady was in a hurry to meet me, I was told by the console collector
friends the article was gonna go into the paper this week...
They took quite a few pictures of me holding up a TRS80 MC-10 with a
SuperPET in the background and all my selves and machines...the lady looked
impressed but Its hard to make people who have not used computers
extensively most of their lives, understand how you can get "excited" for
this kinda stuff...
Claude
http://computer_collector.tripod.com
from
Festival
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Claude.W wrote:
> An offer for an interview with a big Montreal newspaper...
> Photos and hour long interview about
vintage computer collecting...show
off
a bit of the
collection etc...
Cool deal.
> Lets see if this will bring in some rare finds/offers or just emails people with
286s and XTs that will be asking $50 for them...
You'll definitely get plenty of these, but you'll most likely also receive
some good offers.
I usually steer the people with original IBM PC stuff to the list,
otherwise I suggest to them that they donate it to their local community
college so the students can use them for spare parts for various projects.
I no longer suggest Goodwill or Salvation Army as those orgs have stopped
taking old 80s era PCs.
By the way, I still have the tape of CBCs
Undercurrents and their
report on vintage computer collecting and hope to find a card to
capture this and transfer it to .avi or similar and let you all have a
chance at seeing this report...If anyone has a ATI capture card or
similar I am open to offers.....I have an old Spigot card here for
NUbus MAcs but doubt that will produce anything pleasant...
I'm setup with a video capture board and can convert the tape pretty
readily. Send me a copy and I'll see about digitizing it when I get back
from VCF East.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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