10 Mar
2006
10 Mar
'06
9:57 a.m.
I just got the following in my mailbox:
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I am with a documentary television company that is looking for amateurs who
are able to distinguish junk from treasure, and that includes architectural
and computer salvaging, dumpster divers, etc. for a pilot series for the
History Channel. The show is sort of Antique Roadshow with a little bit more
testosterone SO ONLY MALES 18-45.
We are definitely looking for people who can share their know-how in
locating discarded items "that have lost their shine and sparkle, but not
their value ? or their history."
In particular, we are looking for people who do this as a hobby and have a
great passion for it.
Our show is about the search for such items, the history of the item and the
appraisal of the item's value.
We would be doing an hour-long show featuring three collectors and would
follow each collector on their journey for their hidden ?treasure."
If you would be interested in speaking with me regarding this show, could
you please contact me at the number or e-mail listed below.
Thank you!
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Best Regards,
Barbara Hughes
Film Garden Entertainment, Inc.
Phone 818-301-4551
Fax 818-301-4684
Email: bhughesNOSPAM .at. NOSPAMfilmgarden.net
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I've previously chatted with Barbara's boss about the show and it sounds
like they are getting closer to production.
If you can help, please get in touch with these folks ASAP!
Thanks and best of luck!
Erik Klein
www.vintage-computer.com
www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum
The Vintage Computer Forum
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10 Mar
10 Mar
11:17 a.m.
SO ONLY MALES 18-45.
What a crock! Joe Rigdon's about my age (over 45) and
would be a perfect candidate for this except for the
arbitrary age limitation.
Whaddya say, Joe? Ya never know, might be a buck in it.
Glen
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Erik Klein wrote:
I just got the following in my mailbox:
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I am with a documentary television company that is looking for amateurs who
are able to distinguish junk from treasure, and that includes architectural
and computer salvaging, dumpster divers, etc. for a pilot series for the
History Channel. The show is sort of Antique Roadshow with a little bit more
testosterone SO ONLY MALES 18-45.
We are definitely looking for people who can share their know-how in
locating discarded items "that have lost their shine and sparkle, but not
their value ? or their history."
In particular, we are looking for people who do this as a hobby and have a
great passion for it.
Our show is about the search for such items, the history of the item and the
appraisal of the item's value.
We would be doing an hour-long show featuring three collectors and would
follow each collector on their journey for their hidden ?treasure."
If you would be interested in speaking with me regarding this show, could
you please contact me at the number or e-mail listed below.
Thank you!
3:26 p.m.
At 01:59 PM 3/10/2006, you wrote:
Erik Klein wrote:
It lets me out, I'm eighty one.
Charlie Fox
Charles E. Fox Video Production
793 Argyle Rd.
Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8
519-254-4991 cfox1 at cogeco.ca
Check out The Camcorder Kindergarten
at www.chasfoxvideo.com
I just got the following in my mailbox:
History Channel. The show is sort of Antique
Roadshow with a little bit more
testosterone SO ONLY MALES 18-45.
That's not very fair, my girlfriend is fairly into PDP-11s too.
Gordon.
13 Mar
13 Mar
3:51 a.m.
At 06:59 PM 3/10/06 +0000, you wrote:
The fact that they're exluding women is another sign that they're
looking for stero-typical geeks that they can humilate. It sounds like it
might be interesting but I don't think this kind of thing will benefit the
participants or this hobby in the long run.
Joe
Erik Klein wrote:
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I just got the following in my mailbox:
> History Channel. The show is sort of Antique Roadshow with a little bit testosterone
SO ONLY MALES 18-45.
That's not very fair, my girlfriend is fairly into PDP-11s too. 
15 Mar
15 Mar
1:49 p.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
That's not very fair, my girlfriend is fairly into
PDP-11s too.
...which is a demographic of exactly "one". With that kind of
demographic, producing the show would require the viewer to pay for each
episode upfront. It's not unreasonable for them to market to
18-49yr-old males; they couldn't get funding (read: advertiser dollars)
otherwise.
If you can name more PDP-friendly women than fingers on your hands, I'd
be astonished.
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10:19 a.m.
At 12:49 PM 3/15/06 -0600, Jim wrote:
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
I can name a couple, Megan Gentry and Alison.
I'm not sure that I agree with your assertion that 18-49 year old males
are only interested in seeing other 18-49 year old males digging for
vintage hardware.
Joe
That's not very fair, my girlfriend is fairly
into PDP-11s too.
...which is a demographic of exactly "one". With that kind of
demographic, producing the show would require the viewer to pay for each
episode upfront. It's not unreasonable for them to market to
18-49yr-old males; they couldn't get funding (read: advertiser dollars)
otherwise.
If you can name more PDP-friendly women than fingers on your hands, I'd
be astonished. 
4:22 p.m.
Joe R. wrote:
At 12:49 PM 3/15/06 -0600, Jim wrote:
Was going to say, I distinctly remember getting some incredibly clueful
assistance from Megan Gentry when I got my PDP11/73 working first and
was struggling a bit with RT-11. Then I saw in a copyright message "M
Gentry"...
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
I can name a couple, Megan Gentry and Alison. That's not very fair, my girlfriend is fairly
into PDP-11s too.
...which is a demographic of exactly "one". With that
kind of
demographic, producing the show would require the viewer to pay for each
episode upfront. It's not unreasonable for them to market to
18-49yr-old males; they couldn't get funding (read: advertiser dollars)
otherwise.
If you can name more PDP-friendly women than fingers on your hands, I'd
be astonished. I'm not sure that I agree with your assertion
that 18-49 year old males
are only interested in seeing other 18-49 year old males digging for
vintage hardware.
I would have thought they'd have tried to get as many attractive young
women as possible and gone for a kind of "Loaded" thing.
Gordon
4:40 p.m.
I'm not sure that I agree with your assertion that 18-49 year old males
are only interested in seeing other 18-49 year old males digging for
vintage hardware.
Classic computing geeks and nerds like myself (who would be happily
wearing his "nerd" t-shirt from the first VCF east) would be interested
but the rest of that demographic would probably point and laugh because
they just don't understand...
Cheers,
Bryan
7:12 p.m.
In article <20060315214012.9E453581D5 at mail.wordstock.com>,
bpope at wordstock.com (Bryan Pope) writes:
In all fairness, the show proposal wasn't *just* about vintage
computing gear, but more generally about scrounging for anything
vintage. Architectural fixtures (door knobs, latches, hinges, etc.),
collectible memorabilia like Coke stuff and gasoline station signs and
so-on. While I think this could be interesting, its been my
experience that networking with other collectors is much more
productive than dumpster diving or scrounging around buildings that
are about to be demolished. (Well, maybe if I was interested in the
architectural stuff, it would be good to have a relationship with the
local demolition company, but it would be more of a professional
relationship than a random excursion.)
I find that e-bay is much more productive for me than dumpster diving
or scrounging, because the latter takes up so much time. Time is my
scarcest resource. When I was a teenager/high school student, I had
much more time for such things and we did occasionally dumpster dive,
but the most we found were some interesting printouts with customer
data on them :-). I think nowadays all that stuff would be sent
through a shredder before being dumped in the trash, if at all.
Its not a bad premise for a show, but I think its about 15-20 years
too late.
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I'm not
sure that I agree with your assertion that 18-49 year old males
are only interested in seeing other 18-49 year old males digging for
vintage hardware.
Classic computing geeks and nerds like myself (who would be happily
wearing his "nerd" t-shirt from the first VCF east) would be interested
but the rest of that demographic would probably point and laugh because
they just don't understand...
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