RFC: ClassicCmp Demographics/Geographics

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atari-history.com>
Date: Sun Feb 10 17:44:35 2002

You should setup a website with an on-line entry form and a simple flat
database and we could keep a whole listing of who/what/where and it could be
very useful for all.


Curt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Finnegan" <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
To: "Classic Computers" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: RFC: ClassicCmp Demographics/Geographics


> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:
>
> > 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....
>
> Yeah, that sounds like a good/useful idea. I'd be willing to do some work
> on setting this up. I could even host the database... right now, using
> a server on Purdue's campus.
>
> > 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:
>
> The last time I've really played with a database was back in Windows 3.1
> days with Microsoft Access. However, I know people that know what they're
> doing and could assist me ;). [I'd propose a system set up on a Linux
> server, not Windows of course.]
>
> > 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.
>
> That's a rather simple thing to do, although it would still be hard to
> prevent 'leechers' if we want it open. My basic idea is to have
> 'accounts' (email and password perhaps) that you must be a member of
> classiccmp to set up (checks that you are a list member... somehow...
> still need to hash out details for that), and sends the person a
> verification code via email to confirm their account is being registered
> by them. After they have an account, simple .htaccess files would do a
> good job of limiting access to the data.
>
> -- Pat
>
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 17:44:35 GMT

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