How many collectors?

From: Ernest <ernestls_at_home.com>
Date: Sat Aug 4 00:44:06 2001

I think that I read in one of the articles about VCF east that Sellam
thought that there might be 500 serious collectors. I can't remember the
exact quote but it was something like that.

I was just curious to know if that number (whatever it was) is approximately
correct? How do you define "serious collector?" Is it by number of machines
a collector has? Would someone who has a handful of very rare computers
qualify as serious? What if someone spent years doing an educated hunt for
just one particular system that no one else has, and found it. Would they be
a serious collector? Or is it based on the kind of computer being
collected -like DEC vs. Apple, etc.?

I'm interested in peoples opinions on this. Also, this post is NOT about
Sellam's exact quote, it's about the idea behind it.

Ernest
Received on Sat Aug 04 2001 - 00:44:06 BST