Collecting (was: On Generations of People and Computers)

From: Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios_at_vennea.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Apr 20 19:46:10 1997

On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:

[...]

> I recommend checking out Doug Coward's classic computer museum at:
>
> http://www.best.com/~dcoward/museum
>
> He's got a nice diverse selection of old computers and stuff and a lot of
> pictures. Some of the systems he has I have absolutely never heard of,
> and they are just beautiful (it's nice being able to actually see them).
> He also has little tidbits of history for some companies.

  I second that motion. :-) Just been there and I liked it! It's a pity his
page can't be reached from most search engines (or is too new to have been
indexed yet). I wonder how many other such great pages there are...


> It's cool that there are so many people interested in classic computers.

  I heard/read somewhere (can't remember my source, so shoot me) that
collecting computers is becoming some sort of mainstream hobby. Must have
been `Triumph of the Nerds'. An image of a complete luser utterly destroying
a PDP-8 in the process of `restoration' comes to mind. Hopefully most such
people can be convinced that these computers are useless since they don't
run Winblows 95, so they'll leave them alone. :-)


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