Xerox Alto on ebay (not mine!)

Teo Zenios wrote: Not just people, but I think that's a trap that museums can easily fall into, too - that what is or was commonplace can be seen as mundane and boring and yes, "not worthy". Museums can't afford to collect everything, and so it's those things which fall by the wayside, and there's a danger of there being a real gap 20 or 30 years down the line. I'm glad that I've bumped into a few people that collect the sort of dot matrix printers common in the 80s, for instance. I don't think many people find them interesting, but I'm glad that there are people hoarding them, because otherwise they might be a very rare sight indeed in a few decades' time. (I remember about 5 years ago trying to amass a collection of 486 PCs for a project. It was a bit of an eye-opener, and I gave up after a few months - it was just too difficult. They were long-gone to the crusher from offices, and individuals hadn't retained them as they had other systems because they had no nostalgia or "coolness factor") cheers Jules