5 Feb
2006
5 Feb
'06
11:08 a.m.
In article <m1F5Wcq-000IyKC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
I've never even been to the States (I would like to go one day, but alas
finances don't allow it at the moment...)
Alas third party printers are unlikely to be of
much interest since they
are large and don't seem to have much special about them.
Ever been to the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan? You'd be surprised what you learn by seeing the evolution of an item
historically by just
sitting all the items side-by-side.
Oh, absolutely. Alas in the case of this sort of computer stuff it's a
matter of seeing what corners can be cut, what can be left out, etc (I
have an aversion to floppy drives without a track0 sensor, for example!).
The problem with collecting , say, 3rd party printers is that they're
large, and you can't do _that_ much with them. In an ideal world, I'd
collect them. In this world, I have to only collect stuff of special
interest to _me_...
-tony