2 Jun
2003
2 Jun
'03
9:35 a.m.
Over the weekend, a thought has been taking shape
inside my head:
What if we made a Grand Unified Union of Computing Collectors? Okay, GUUCC
doesn't pronounce well. "Geeewkhkh". (shudder) How about Collector's
International Association... Erm, nope. ;) International Computer Artifact
Preservation Society! ICAPS sounds good. Or, if you totally disagree with
it all, send a suggestion.
OK, www.ipacs.org. What should it contain?
-A member's directory with all the computers he/she owns
My first worry about this is that some machines are now quite valuable
(e.g. on E-bay), and having a public list of owners might attract the
wrong sort of attention...
There are a few machines that I own that I will not _publically_ admit to
owning (not even on this list), altough it's sometimes fairly obvious
that I've at least worked on one. I know of other collectors who feel
likewise about their rarer artefacts.
One would then click the entry link, and open up a
window with pictures
Thus ruling out all peopls who don't have digital cameras or scanners...
IPACS would also allow for sharing of storage space,
people splitting the
bill for major warehouses?
Does this need to be formalised in this way. If 2 collectors are going to
share storage space, I guess they must live pretty close together and
therefore know each other anyway.
-tony