Lost Treasures (was: Cray-1) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Apr 1998

Well, I recall from The Secret Guide To Computers that early
Timex Sinclairs were used as doorstops at Timex (or whatever).
Some sick minded person might gut a NeXT cube and use it as a
little stool for flowers at an exhibit of abstract art ;)

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At 08:56 30-04-98 -0600, "Jeff Kaneko" &lt;Jeff.Kaneko(a)ifrsys.com&gt; wrote:
>
>> At 17:30 29-04-98 +0000, Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk wrote:
>> >Doug:
>> >
>> >> Is the reason those old radio/phonograph boxes are not being 
thrown 
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  > >>
away is that noone notice the cover and thinks it's just a pretty    ---
snippers ---

>> There were folks who took a late-20's/early 30's radio which was 
built into
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 >> a beautiful wooden cabinet and turned it into
a piece of furniture  by
...
 >> gutting it. Then there were the late 40's
and early 50's TV cabinets  which
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 >> met the same fate. At least I've rescued
several of each of these  kinds of
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    receivers for my collection. 
Then there was this girl I was dating while I lived in Baltimore in 
the early 80's.  Her dad had a vintage (early 20th cent.)'magneto' 
(u-crank-it) telephone he mounted on the wall in their basement as a 
conversation piece.  He felt it was 'too heavy' so before mounting 
it he gutted the thing.  So many historic relics have been destroyed 
in the name of 'interior decoration'. 
Some people have no clue. But in retrospect to that statement, those  people
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 are probably not technically oriented like we are so
there is no  awareness
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 of anything's actual worth as a technological
collectable. 

Thankfully, the metal/plastic boxes our old computers were made with  have
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 virtually no value as 'interior decorations'
(yet). However, there  could be
...
 exceptions for maybe a couple of models. I recall some
list members  here
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 had commented upon some as being rather attractive in
appearance. I  haven't
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 come across those yet.

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