what the heck is it

Chuck Guzis wrote: I agree it's a shame, but I always ran from this stuff in surplus because I figured I'd never find the software and manuals, which I require to get involved in collecting something. Word processors are just to far down on the food chain to store for 10 years hoping to find some software from a bunch of aholes who made a career of making weird floppy formats for no reason other than to keep people from making cheap media for their over priced hardware. (sort of a rant, sorry). I have very proprietary stuff, but only if I had extraordinary access to the goods to make it worthwhile to get the stuff, and for machines which were more general purpose than just word processing. There was a "museum of office automation" or such in Kansas City maintained by the OA manufacturers association for many years. The group eventually shrank down to where they liquidated their collection and sold the headquarters building about 5 or 10 years ago. A friend who repaired printers maintained a membership for years and clued me in to some of the stuff that was sold off, and John Bohner hauled off 3 Addressograph machines, as an example of the stuff that was there. But I don't know of any other collections of the like. They actually may not have had that much electronic gear, as much as the older stuff. Jim