On 17 Jan 2007 at 17:14, Richard wrote:
Ditto. Except that I focus on graphics and terminals
and you'd be
surprised how many terminals have "already gone over the brink" as it
were. People keep CPUs for nostalgia. They chuck the terminal.
Richard, what you do for terminals is certainly worthwhile. However,
given the description of a terminal (e.g. user's manual), I can
easily emulate one or, if worse comes to worst, build one from modern
components.
A CPU is much harder.
Peripherals (e.g. tapes, disks, printers) are the hardest. If I
were to collect something for preservation, it'd be peripherals.
Cheers,
Chuck