22 Jun
1997
22 Jun
'97
11:27 a.m.
About a month or two back we were discussing starting a newsgroup for
classic computer collectors. I just wanted to mention there is a
somewhat related newsgroup on the net that could use some activity:
alt.technology.obsolete
I am for it, I have it on my news sites to check and in the last few
months I have maybe seen three messages in it (two being multi-newsgroup
spams)
Whaddya guys (and gals) think?
Larry Anderson
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5:28 p.m.
I'm against new newsgroups being created,
especially when the topics
are quite technical and already well-handled by existing newsgroups.
For example, people wanting Apple II help can go to comp.sys.apple2,
users of various CP/M systems hang around comp.os.cpm, PDP-11
users have vmsnet.pdp-11, etc.
Agreed. Off-hand I can't think of a single classic computer which is not
covered by at least one existing newsgroup. If you don't know which group
to post to, you'll find that most of them are quite friendly to
just-off-topic questions. If you find an obscure Z80 machine that didn't
ever run CP/M, I'm quite sure that a post to comp.os.cpm would get either
some help or a pointer to the appropriate newsgroup. I'd be _very_
supprised if it got a flame.
I know for a _fact_ that other early workstations have been discussed in
alt.sys.perq with no flamage.
Just be warned that most of these groups do not want off-topic postings
about mainstream modern PC's (for which there are plenty of other groups),
and certainly don't want spam :-)
Tim. (shoppa(a)triumf.ca)
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The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill
2:53 p.m.
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Larry Anderson & Diane Hare wrote:
About a month or two back we were discussing starting
a newsgroup for
classic computer collectors. I just wanted to mention there is a
somewhat related newsgroup on the net that could use some activity:
alt.technology.obsolete
I am for it, I have it on my news sites to check and in the last few
months I have maybe seen three messages in it (two being multi-newsgroup
spams)
Whaddya guys (and gals) think?
Sounds lie a plan. The trick is to get the word out. Perhaps a
carefully placed message in alt.computers.folklore will get some people
to check it out and start contributing. Larry, perhaps you could post a
message proclaiming that you are commandeering alt.technology.obsolete
for the discussion of old computers and if nobody objects, its ours.
Sam
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4:34 p.m.
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> wrote,
Larry, perhaps you could post a message proclaiming
that you are
commandeering alt.technology.obsolete for the discussion of old
computers and if nobody objects, its ours.
But with alt.folklore.computers and comp.society.folklore, is there
really a need for a *third* newsgroup about the history of computers?
Especially one that would have a misleading name and isn't carried
everywhere?
eric
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