24 Jan
2002
24 Jan
'02
2:22 a.m.
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
When I closed up my office, I could find people who
wanted everything
else, from old magazines and newspapers, books, files of clippings,
internal documents, schematics, even marketing materials from defunct
companies, furniture, empty binders with company names on the spines,
computers, unidentifiable circuit boards, 8 inch drives, Syquest drives,
modems, weird cables, T shirts, trade show freebie crap, . . .
That's not so strange when you consider all this material will be (if it
isn't already) highly historic and useful for research in the future
(which is why I took all that "crap" :)
I had a very difficult time getting anybody to take
FREE monitors and FREE
printers. The only way that I could get anybody to take them was to start
boxing them up with S100 cards, etc. and making unbreakable package deals.
Well, I also collect various printers, monitors, and terminals. I'm
weird. But boring as they are, it's all part of the record, and needs
preserving.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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