As far as commonality of old machines goes, most airports have
old machines. Public libraries do as well. The boston public
library just replaced some Vaxen with Alpha machines. I couldn't
get them to tell me what they did with the old stuff.
In general, I would say that the amount of old machines is greater
than a given reasonable estimate (ie there's always one more).
Also, I'm wondering how many simple cash registers will have to be
taken out of service.
>
>Hmmm... And Sam, you have an interesting thought. But I wonder actually
how
>many old systems you refer to are actually are still in use?
>
>Anybody who's got a better handle on the present population of minis
and
>mainframes still in service want to give an opinion on this?
>
>One drawback for me (maybe others here too): my wife will kill me if I
drag
>home a second or third big-iron machine ;-) We just moved into a new
house
>and I can say for sure that we are only _half-moved_ at the moment. The
>other stuff yet to move is my collections, library, workshop, tools,
>equipment, parts, stuff, etc, etc, etc.. I am tired and sore already.
>Thank heaven the old and new house are only about a mile apart!
>
>At 14:05 23-04-98 -0700, Kip wrote:
>>At 09:27 4/23/98 -0700, Sam wrote:
>>>I'm sure this is not even an original thought, but the Year 2000
presents
>>>a special opportunity for collectors like us.
>>
>>See ANALYTICAL ENGINE Volume 1, Number 2, October 1993 ;-) If we
think
>>we've got a space crisis NOW....
>>__________________________________________
>>Kip Crosby engine_at_chac.org
>> http://www.chac.org/index.html
>>Computer History Association of California
>>
>Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
>Jamestown, NY USA
>Member of Antique Wireless Association
> URL: http://www.ggw.org/freenet/a/awa/
>
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