14 Jan
2010
14 Jan
'10
7:58 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lanning" <brianlanning at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: Be careful handling computer racks
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
Yeah really! PERSPECTIVE is very important in a hobby
like ours. I've seen
people get divorced over technical collections; I know one person who
committed suicide (he was a slide rule collector -- it ate up his home and
caused endless tension with his wife.)
Some time ago, there was a documentary on danish TV, telling about "the VALO
man". Thus guy has a phenomenal memory for records (as LP, Cd, ....), and
collects VALO packages. And what is VALO ? Boxes in which soap for washing
clothes is sold. He can tell from the top of his had when a packages was
made, based on color grading, character fonts, ... He has about (IIRC) 200
different packages
Nico