Collectors pay big money for old tech

The down side is that some historically significant artifacts will be purchased by rich twits who will stick them in a closet or a display case. The up side is that those same artifacts didn't go to the skip, as they did all too often, all too recently. And history demonstrates that they will come back out of those closets (or garages, in the case of vintage automobiles and motorcycles) and end up in the hands of preservationists. We're seeing a tipping point where at least some people are beginning to see the urgency of preserving our digital *hardware* legacy, even if profit is the driver. As I said, it's not going into a dumpster.... -- Ian On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Kevin Parker <trash80 at internode.on.net> wrote: -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."