List charter mods & headcount... ;-)

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Allain" <allain(a)panix.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:40 AM Subject: Re: List charter mods & headcount... ;-) It's a gut feeling backed up by the popularity of retro computing sites poping up in the last few years. I don't know if all vintage equipment is being collected more, but there are alot of new people in the 8-16bit computer scene. Just like in fashion, cars, music, and movies once something gets to be 20 years old it gets popular again. Some of the craze is from retro gaming that is gaining in popularity, not everyone likes to run emulators so they start digging up the old computers and a few branch off into other systems. What I don't know is how many old timers have ditched their collections in the last few years and moved on. Sites like eBay have helped collectors by giving them a market to find the old machines they want. Lots of software that was assumed lost forever has been showing up in the last year or so, so people are actively looking for the items in question. You would have a better feal on the collectors who specialize in mini's and mainframes, I bet if somebody never used one or seen one in operation they might not be too keen on collecting them because of size, power, and complexity. The smaller desktop type systems (home computers) are what I see as being actively collected by the younger generation (Atari, Commodore, 68K apple, early PC's, Tandy, etc). The link below will take you to their downloadable archive (I was getting 350K/sec this morning) http://www.archive.org/movies/computerchronicles.php