PDP-8/S - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Jun 2015

Heh!  The  will have to pry my PDP 8  from my cold dead  hands to get it 
<<grin!>>

In a message dated 6/13/2015 1:14:19 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
tmfdmike at gmail.com writes:

I have  an old computer collection in the workshop.

I also have a gun  collection in the house :-)

If anyone can *still* successfully make off  with my pdps, they can
bloody have them! :D

Mike

On Sat, Jun  13, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:
...
  I  dunno, guys, that might be a little paranoid ... a
lot of this stuff   is
...
  big and heavy ... I just can't imagine a thief
coming in and  carting away
 PDP-11s, VAX-11s, RP/RL/TU drives, IBM mainframes, whole  racks and the  like
...
  ... I can hardly move some of this stuff I have as 
one guy and it is
 certainly a loud, time-consuming, sweaty process ...  not to mention, how
 would anyone go about fencing something like that?  I don't think the  local
...
  pawn shop will want it ... imagine a giant  illicit
market for stolen
 computers, like for stolen artwork? LOL. I'm  not so sure. If someone  wants
...
  to keep their QTH anonymous that's cool  and
totally your business but I
 suspect most intruders really couldn't  care less about old computers...  but
...
  who knows. Maybe all this stuff  will turn out to be
the Old Masters of  the
...
  digital age and we'll all  be rich! :O

 Best,

 Sean

  On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Noel Chiappa  <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
 wrote:

>   > From: Fred Cisin
>
>      > If somebody were to try to make a "complete" list, it would 
make
> sense
>     > to provide variable  levels of anonymity
>     > ...
>   > Prob'ly some people would be more willing to discuss what  they have
> IFF
>     > they aren't  opening themselves to theft risk, and/or a deluge of 
"I'd
...
 >   > like to buy".
>
> Let me second that.  Particularly as the value of these things goes up,
> security will  be a real issue for people.
>
> As I like to say, the  _good_ thing about the Internet is that it brings  the
...
 > world to  your doorstep; and the _bad_ thing about
the Internet is that  it
...
 >  brings the world to your doorstep...
>
>     Noel
> 

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