Classic Computers WIKI

18 Nov 2003

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    On your page,
you mention that one should be willing to pick up
 any machine that is offered. While this is a nice thought,
 I couldn't even justify the price of gas to pick up a 
 Actually, I agree with you.
 That was something that we came up with... well, I don't know how long
 ago. The idea was to promote the willingness of people to advertise
 objects on the site.
 Not all rules are made to be steadfastly observed - and I think this is
 one of those :) 
It's more the idea of the philosophy behind the page, and the idea that we 
don't want anyone thinking that we're trying to be picky.  If an offer comes 
to Jpaul for a pallet of 486's, well, he might not want those.  He's more 
into big iron.  But me, I'd find that interesting as I would love to try 
doing some things with Linux on them, clusters, etc.

Being a curator on the site doesn't mean you have to take anything that comes 
through.  What it does mean is that if you find an offer, try to contact 
another curator to take it for you if you don't want it, that way the 
absolute minimum gets trashed.

That's the whole idea...no one wants to force anything on anyone. :)

Tarsi

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