ClassicCmp Demographics/Geographics

From: John Chris Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Sun Feb 10 16:36:09 2002

Whose garage to sneak into at night, when you need a disk controller for the
VAX...

--John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Doc Shipley
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 16:58 PM
> To: Classic Computers
> Subject: RFC: ClassicCmp Demographics/Geographics
>
>
> Hey.
> Along the lines of last week's "specialty" thread, I'm kind of curious
> where the various members (including and especially lurkers) live.
> Maybe more to the point, where our various machines and parts dumps
> reside....
> I've managed so far never to touch a database, but this strikes me as
> an interesting-enough and simple-enough first project. I'm interested
> in listing and correlating several things:
>
> Skillset resources - who knows what, where. For instance, if I had an
> Amiga with catweasel hardware and I knew Grumpy ol' Fred lived 30 miles
> away, I might just drive out one Saturday, set it up, and learn
> something. Or whatever.
> Collections. Who has what, where. I travel nationwide (when there's
> work to do, that is), and if I know a list-member lives in the area I'll
> be in, I might arrange to see their collection, or even do some very
> rare face-to-face trading.
> Commercial regional and local parts and components resources. Most of
> us seem to have pet electronics suppliers in our areas.
> Wish lists. Who _wants_ what, where.
> What do we do when we're not playing with very old toys? (Yeah, I
> know. Look for older toys)
>
> We could do this as an online db, although I doubt that we'd want a
> lot of it public.
>
> Comments?
>
> Doc
>
>
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