Grrrrrr - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Nov 1999

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: Grrrrrr

...
   Exactly,
reality kicks in. You can't run a big IBM in your home... sorry, 
Care to explain why not? I am pretty sure there are collectors in the UK
with 308x IBM mainframes that they're either running or fully intend to
get running.

> not going to happen. People only want the minis they can run easily at home
...
   and something
that does not disrupt the house as it is. 

WOW! Thats amazing.. Great! When I post it here then I should expect someone
to buy the system right???????

...
 That's news to me... I want machines that are
_difficult_ to run (the
easy ones are no challenge...). And disrupting the house is no real
problem either...

 Most collectors want: 
If ever there had to be proof of the damage that these sort of
'collectors' are doing to the history of computing then this is it.

> 
That's right,,, they are all wrong and you are *right*?????

...
   The first
computer they ever touched (that's where I come in)
 An old transistor mini
 Maybe a PDP-8/11.... 
Fortunately, few of us here are 'most collectors'. People here do not
(necessarily) want the 'popular' machines. Many of us what the machines
we had never heard of...

Mee too. I have quite a colelction myself.. (and not the popular ones)

...

  Most others aren't worth the cost of shipping. 
If ever I find out that you've scrapped certain machines, the known
number of which remaining can be counted on the fingers of one hand (in
unary!), then I will not be responsible for my actions.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH.. That's funny .. sit here and whine about the minis
being crushed but you do *nothing* proactive to seek out and *save* those
units... All wind, no action gets you
..............................<nothing>

http://www.pdp8.com/

john

...
 -tony