On 18 May 99 at 19:37, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Well I'm a collector of the "disdained" and we are Legion. You can't have been
> > looking around the I-net lately if you haven't noticed the burgeoning number of
> > micro collectors. Mini and Main -frame collectors are a distinct minority.
>
> True enough. A lot of people want to collect what they remember using
> ('Hey, I used a PET back in 1979, and I'd sure like to have one now').
> Rather fewer want the big iron. And very few want the obscure machines
> that were very nice in their day, but expensive, so nobody bought them,
> so nobody remembers them...
>
> Doesn't bother me at all. For one (selfish) reason, it means more minis
> for people like me :-). But more seriously, it's good that different
> people are collecting different machines - that way at least one of
> everything will be preserved.
>
> > I collect "home" computers. Original IBM's including some "classic" PS/2s as
> > well as Apples, Ataris, Commodores, and Tandy. WE don't want no "steenking"
> > minis. I wouldn't turn down a PDP8/e mind you.
>
> Why the 8/e in particular? The PDP8 is a very elegant machine, so I can
> understand wanting to own one (I have a couple...) but I can't see why
> you'd pick that one model. It is the most common one, I guess...
>
> > Now possibly you mini drones don't consider that "collecting" but I am
>
> I do consider it 'collecting', don't worry. I guess I just prefer large
> boards of TTL that I can understand to large ASICs that I can't....
>
> -tony
>
>
As I said I'm not from Texas, so BIG don't mean shit to me.
The Dec PDP8/e attraction goes way back to my digital course when a friend
gave me a DEC 8/e maintenance manual which outlined the CPU processes with the
Fetches and responses and helped me understand how a computer works. A little
like studying an unknown processor and following it's processes. The
explanations were so clear and precise that I've always wanted to have the
machine so I could follow its functioning. The book turned me onto the machine.
ciao larry
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Received on Tue May 18 1999 - 19:54:31 BST