Article about collecting in Antique Trader.

From: Glenatacme_at_aol.com <(Glenatacme_at_aol.com)>
Date: Wed Jun 30 22:21:11 1999

Hello William:

In a message dated 6/30/99 10:33:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, aw288_at_osfn.org
writes:

> With big machines, tinkering was generally frowned upon, especially with
> the hardware.

I'll bet it was! I once caused an uproar at BP's MIS Dept. over some code I
wrote to batch transaction records from PCs to VAXen via ATT Mail ... nobody
told me the VAX would puke if it encountered a null in a data record . . .
and that was just _software_ . . . taught me a lesson: never rock the "big
iron" . . .

But nowadays, do those members of the group who have "big" computers out in
their barns experiment with them? Or just try to restore and preserve them?
After all, nothing (probably) really depends on the machine in your basement
. . . so no real chance of a summary execution . . . just curious . . .

Regards,

Glen Goodwin
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Received on Wed Jun 30 1999 - 22:21:11 BST