LET'S RESOLVE THIS ISSUE was (Re: Made a deal to get a Vax 6000,2 Fujitsu Supercomputers and TOPS10???)

You sound like someone who burns paintings just because you don't have space to store them, regardless from being priceless Picasso's... It's not very hard to understand the following facts: - the majority of this list subscribers are collectors, which means that they like collecting certain stuff. - everyone understands the difference between "storing" and "collecting". It's impossible to prevent all minis from the planet from being destroyed -- store all obsolete minis. However, collectors are available to save a necessarily small percentage from destruction, by collecting them. They do this because they *love* it. - the average storage capacity of collectors is usually not very high. Not everyone is able to own a VAX, and those who are, can't hold more than 1-2 of such machines. Now compare this storage capacity with the rate you get minis (you said about 40-50 a year). - you can't expect to come here saying "I crush 40 minis a year" without people becoming upset. I guess it breaks the heart of every collector (at least it breaks mine...). Cheers, -- *** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <yoda(a)isr.ist.utl.pt> *** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda *** Teaching Assistant and MSc Student at ISR: *** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa *** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL *** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585