26 May
2013
26 May
'13
7:13 p.m.
On Sun, 27 May 2013, Richard wrote:
I'm willing to bet Larry Ellison would happily turn an Apple I in to
shredded modern art on his yacht.
So says you. I don't see you making a kickstarter project or doing a
fund-raising drive to purchase these machines to put them to the
purpose *you* claim is best for them. If you don't like what someone
else is doing with a machine, buy it from them and do what you think
should be done. Until then, please, just shut up because it's not
your right to tell other people what to do with their property.
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On 26 May 2013 19:21, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> There's a purely selfish reason, I guess. If machines are selling for
> very high prices then I'll not be able to afford to buy them. Oh well..
>
> But there's another reason. There seems to be no correlation between
> technical ability and wealth (if there is a correlation, it's small and
> negative, in that highly-paid jobs tend not to be electronics/computer
> related). Which means, alas, that some old computers, the Apple 1 being a
> prime example, are not so likely to be owned by people who can restore
> them, care for them, and run them.
More bullshit. You have provided no evidence that people who are wealthy
don't care about the things they buy, nor that they have no skills to
restore them (do you have *any* idea how many silicon valley millionaires
there are?), or will not run them. The sentiment expressed here is
simple wealth envy and nothing more.
Paul Allen is pretty damned wealthy and he has *all* of the qualities
you assert that he does not, simply because he is wealthy.
Furthermore, people who are wealthy have the amazingly odd idea that
they could *hire* people to do restorations for them and keep their
machines in working order.
Without this sort of person, we wouldn't have a Living Computer Museum
in Seattle and I'm willing to also bet we wouldn't have a Computer
History Museum in Silicon Valley.
Yeah. Paul Allen did a very good thing there.
These
machines
should not be kept in a safe, regarded as an investment, They should be
run.