27 Feb
1999
27 Feb
'99
3:46 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
Just from hanging around this list, you should be able
to pick up what
machines are most generally coveted/respected/common/whatever. However,
you should bring home everything _especially_ if you can't identify it.
Remember, the stuff you can't identify is most likely to be something cool
that all of us will then respect you for. Well, maybe not, but you'll get
more hours of fun from it ;)
Max, I would not recommend picking up just anything if you are a novice.
You may end up bringing home plenty of unintersting PC clones.
For a novice collector, your best bet for getting good at identifying
computers you find in your excursions is to do web searches to see what
people are posting to their web "museums". A good place to start would be
http://www.vintage.org/vcf/vcflinks.htm which has links to hundreds of web
sites with pictures and details of many different computers.
View enough sites and you start to get an idea of what's out there and the
amazing number of things you haven't see yet. Armed with this knowledge
stored in your head, you can now go out and start to look for these
machines, or be able to better identify just what you are looking at when
you see it.
Its the best you have until a definitive compendium is made with pictures
and descriptions (an idea that has been tossed around over here among the
local SF Bay Area collectors for a while now).
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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