RFC: ClassicCmp Demographics/Geographics

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sun Feb 10 15:58:10 2002

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
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 15:58:10 GMT