30 Apr
1998
30 Apr
'98
10:30 a.m.
Then there was this girl I was dating while I lived in Baltimore in
the early 80's. Her dad had a vintage (early 20th cent.)'magneto'
(u-crank-it) telephone he mounted on the wall in their basement as a
conversation piece. He felt it was 'too heavy' so before mounting
it he gutted the thing. So many historic relics have been destroyed
in the name of 'interior decoration'.
Some people have no clue. But in retrospect to that statement, those people
are probably not technically oriented like we are so there is no awareness
of anything's actual worth as a technological collectable.
Thankfully, the metal/plastic boxes our old computers were made with have
virtually no value as 'interior decorations' (yet). However, there could be
exceptions for maybe a couple of models. I recall some list members here
had commented upon some as being rather attractive in appearance. I haven't
come across those yet.