22 Oct
2010
22 Oct
'10
4:55 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
Howzbout the date codes of each chip?
The depth of cataloging would depend on the subjective issue of just how
interesting/important that item is.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
OK, I got that. But why have a maximum of 3 levels? I
now understand what
you are saying, and I will admit the only examples I can think of that
need 4 levels of heirarchy are somewhat strained [1], in my experience
having a limit like this on anything is asking for trouble. Like having a
maximum deptho fo a directory tree on a filesystem :-)
[1] As I understand it, if you acqure an HP 9826 computer system with a
printer and a plotter, you might label them :
2010.53.001 (Processor unit)
2010.53.002 (Printer)
2010.53.003 (Plotter)
Maybe then 2010.53.001A (RS222 interface card in the processor unit),
2010.53.001B (parallel interface card in the processor unt), 2010.53.003A
(HPIB interface PCB in the plotter).
But what then do yoy do about an optional firmware ROM on the RS232
interface?
2010.53.001A.1
There are some really limited aspects to almost any cataloging system.
But there are often ways to expand past those limitations.
For example, the "cutter numbers" of the Library Of Congress cataloging
numbers.
But what i don't 'get' is why a stock
machine is somehow 'special'
becuase it was used for a particular task, when any other machine off the
same production line would have done just as well.
Such as Hilton and Burr's dueling pistols?
The Hasselblad that went to the moon?
If I was visiting a museum, I would be much more
interested to see a
working example of the sysem (prefereablly running the rogiianl software)
than to see the machine that was actually used, not operational.
Your primary interest is the technology.
There are OTHER people where the primary interest might only be the
history.
Somewhere, there might even be somebody who would treasure the first clone
that Dell assembled. Dude! You're getting a POS.
catalogued
when they come in, but boards installed in larger items only
get catalogued when they are pulled for repair or replacement.
Hmm.. I don't
think I am terribly happy about that. I would want to open
up every machine as it was being catalogued and recurd all the intenral
PCBs, what options are installed, and so on.