15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
12:04 a.m.
On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Jay West wrote:
To which Richard replied....
Dude. 10 years ago I don't know if this
"hobby" was on anyone's
radar.
I beg to differ. There's quite a few listmembers here that were
active in the hobby 10+ years ago. I'm also certain there were a
good number of people doing it well over 10 years ago that still
aren't on this list. A relative newcomer to the hobby wouldn't
usually be aware of this. Just because this list wasn't around 15
years ago doesn't mean there wasn't a lot of people collecting. 10 years ago, I was adopting and hacking on PDP-8 and
PDP-11
systems because it was fun, and I thought it was important to
understand and preserve the technology. I don't think I ever really
considered the notion of it being "a hobby" or any other structured,
labelable/quantifiable thing. I just *did* it, because I wanted to.
Just like today...except now it has a name.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL