23 Oct
2010
23 Oct
'10
1:03 p.m.
[1] As I
understand it, if you acqure an HP 9826 computer system with a
printer and a plotter, you might label them :
2010.53.001 (Processor unit)
2010.53.002 (Printer)
2010.53.003 (Plotter)
Maybe then 2010.53.001A (RS222 interface card in the processor unit),
2010.53.001B (parallel interface card in the processor unt), 2010.53.003A
(HPIB interface PCB in the plotter).
But what then do yoy do about an optional firmware ROM on the RS232
interface?
2010.53.001A.1 But what i
don't 'get' is why a stock machine is somehow 'special'
becuase it was used for a particular task, when any other machine off the
same production line would have done just as well.
Such as Hilton and Burr's dueling pistols?
The Hasselblad that went to the moon? Your primary interest is the technology.
There are OTHER people where the primary interest might only be the
history.
I don;t see why those are mutually exclusive.
Somewhere, there might even be somebody who would
treasure the first clone
that Dell assembled. Dude! You're getting a POS.
^^^
PERQ Operting System? I already have it. (Sorry, could NOT resist...)
catalogued when they come in, but boards installed in larger items only
get catalogued when they are pulled for repair or replacement.
Hmm.. I don't
think I am terribly happy about that. I would want to open
up every machine as it was being catalogued and recurd all the intenral
PCBs, what options are installed, and so on.
The depth of cataloging would depend on the subjective issue of just how
interesting/important that item is.
How can you possibly know how interesting/importantsomethign will later
turn out to be?
-tony