14 May
2004
14 May
'04
11:57 a.m.
Fred wrote...
Indeed. My condolences, too, to his family.
It is with great sadness that I have to announce
the sudden and very
untimely death of Sipke de Wal (the Xgistor) of Noordwijk, The
Netherlands.
Very sad. My thoughts are with him and his family.
It does make me think... what should happen to my prized/cherished
collection if I die suddenly. On the one hand, I'd prefer it to go free to
listmembers who have helped me over the years, not the local smelter. On the
other hand, my wife has put up with the hobby for so long - and bit her lip
often when I spent "her" money on collection items. I would definitely want
some money for the collection or parts of it (my gorgeous dual bay 8E and
dual bay HP2000 would no doubt fetch "serious" money) to go to my wife. Just
I have let my parents (who house my collection) that if anything should
happen to me, they are to get in touch with one of my friends (Philip
Belben, who used to be on this list) and that he can do essentially what
he likes with my computers, cameras, tools, test gear, etc.
He is heavily into old computers (and for that matter photography) and
would realise that while the box of old PC motherboards is not
particularly valuable, the boxes of M-series and R-series flip-chip cards
most certainly are (I don't necessarily mean 'valuable' in the sense that
they can be exchanged for money, rather that they are worth saving for
restoring old computers). And that some things, like my box of HP41
modules -- which contains 2 ZenROMs amongst other things -- are well worth
grabbing.
-tony