I second the last statement about the to collect monitors, printers, and
etc., I too have tons of these items but hope to trim it to just the
working items this summer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: LEAST valuable collectibles (was: Apple II boards
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> When I closed up my office, I could find people who wanted
everything
> else, from old magazines and newspapers, books,
files of clippings,
> internal documents, schematics, even marketing materials from
defunct
> companies, furniture, empty binders with company
names on the
spines,
> computers, unidentifiable circuit boards, 8 inch
drives, Syquest
drives,
modems, weird
cables, T shirts, trade show freebie crap, . . .
That's not so strange when you consider all this material will be (if
it
isn't already) highly historic and useful for
research in the future
(which is why I took all that "crap" :)
> I had a very difficult time getting anybody to take FREE monitors
and FREE
> printers. The only way that I could get anybody
to take them was to
start
> boxing them up with S100 cards, etc. and making
unbreakable package
deals.
Well, I also collect various printers, monitors, and terminals. I'm
weird. But boring as they are, it's all part of the record, and needs
preserving.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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