William Donzelli wrote:
>
> > > Agreed. If I ever get an unbuilt kit my first reaction is to build the
> > > thing. Examples of 1970's packaging are not very interesting to me :-)
Definitely. I was there. In my "prime" of youth. While I sometimes
wore slightly flared trousers, I never owned a "disco suit".
> >
> > I disagree. I have three unassembled Cromemco Dazzler kits. I plan to
> > assemble one. But if I only had one unassembled kit I think I'd leave it
> > that way. I personally do find the packaging to be of interest.
>
> The Heathkit people have pretty much set a precedence with unbuilt kits -
> if you build one, your name turns to mud. Then they kill you.
Then why did these obvious assholes get interested in kits? They
might as well collect old boxes of Macaroni-and-Cheese. If the
packaging is what counts, who cares if weevils ate the pasta?
I get a "new" machine, I look inside to make sure of no obvious flood
or rain damage or other debris. I vacuum out the dust and dirt. I
plug it in. I turn it on. Then if necessary I fix it -- for some
reason a rare necessity in my old Radio Shack machines. As the man
said, only the good die young.
I don't collect kits (though if anybody sees a DigiComp I around, I'll
grab it), but if I did I'd build them. Static displays are for Lenin's
tomb, other cemetaries, and museums. If something does nothing, I've
no use for it, best let somebody else have it who doesn't care. (I do
leave slack for my wife's curios -- she enjoys looking at them and
dusting them, no matter how much otherwise useful space they take up
where computers should go -- I have enough problems with the tons of
science fiction books also taking up space, many of which I _know_ I
won't be rereading anytime soon, but if I sell them to a used-book
dealer, he might sell them to someone else and then it'll be a bitch
finding them when I _do_ want to reread them).
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 22:13:39 BST