18 Oct
2010
18 Oct
'10
7:45 a.m.
From: jules.richardson99 at gmail.com
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You have had different experiences to I, then. I've seen it many a time with
vintage computers - items that people have paid good money for, then quickly
grown bored of them once they've satisfied a long-term desire to "own one of
those", at which point they've relegated the item to storage. When it's
"found" again a few years later, they decide that it's too much effort to
find
a new home for it and, as it doesn't seem important to them, they just dump it.
Hi
I tend to squirrel things away and forget about them. Every now and then
I'll be looking for something else and come across the item that I'd
stashed years ago. It would always be like finding it the first time
for me.
Some people don't see things this way but to me, it is like finding a
new treasure.
The biggest problem I see is things like floads, fires and death.
These seem to be the biggest problems of collectors. I still don't
have a good plan for how to disposition my collect when I depart.
I truly have no idea what to do. There are a couple of rarer items
that the CHM has state interest in but I'd hate to see any part
of my collection sent to the scrapper.
Still, bits and pieces of my collection are useful to others. I recently
read some 1702 EPROMs for Bruce ( of Digi-Barn ) and also
dumped ROMs with PASCAL for the AIM-65. I've reconstructed
to PAL used on the SwyftCard for the Apple IIe from the operation
manual that I hope will be useful to others.
I'm always tinkering with things. I try to document things when I
can but I'm real bad at that. I often go off on tangents. I've been
fiddling with cuckoo clocks lately ( a mechanical sequencial computer ).
I guess the important thing is why the person gets something for
their collection. Some just want the prize and have no intent to
ever explore it. Others will dig into them. Even those that never
run them often find out all that they can about their history. The
ones I tend to think less of are the ones that just see things as
an investment.
What I don't like about museums is that they may take an item
that you treasure and later sell it. I fully understand why they
do this but somehow, it just feels wrong to me.
Dwight