31 Jul
2001
31 Jul
'01
10:56 a.m.
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Mike wrote:
I don't normally endorse this rag in any way, but
in Newsweek's Aug 6 issue
pg 8 (Periscope dept.) "Trading Pickup Lines in COBOL" VCFs and Sellam get
a nice little token mention and are charactertured to boot!
All of this publicity is a bad thing for computer collecting; too many
biz 'droids and other idiots with lots of cash and warehouse space
will start collecting older computers as an investment, not to use and
trade. Finding parts that we need, and systems that we want to play
with, will become more difficult. :-(
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