23 Aug
2011
23 Aug
'11
5:19 p.m.
----- Original Message ----- From: "jim s" <jws at jwsss.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: eBay... Yikes! (PDP-1 Handbook)
I am referring to transparancies. 4 x 5 an 8 x 10 photos of the
spacecraft from some Boeing internal publishing group.
You got my exact point. These transparancies were on the list to be
trashed, but my friend (son) saw them and moved all such he saw in the
cleanout to the save pile. The envelope came to me with an note "burn"
on it, that is how close it came.
You got my point, if this wasn't recognized by an average person
cleaning out an estate, there is even less chance of papers / software /
manuals being rescued. sometimes the person doing the cleaning is going
thru some sort of partum emotions, and unless you are right there, it
all gets tossed as well.
We have the cpm disk collection of (don someone??) that is still in
limbo / lost for that reason, to name but one instance. I'm married to
an understanding and loving wife who appreciates what I do to some
extent and would contact people to try to save what I have should I not
be able to do that myself.
I recently rescued some Lunar Orbitor 1
photographs, and may get some
other artifacts, so something as mundane as PDP1 documents must rank
below that when the people who go thru estates see things. (saying
if they missed space stuff, we are probably way behind that).
Jim
How many people saved old computer manuals compared to Lunar Orbiter
photographs? I might be wrong but photographs are not that pricey,
original negatives on the other hand are (you can make a million
pictures from those). Rarity and value are two different things anyway.