On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> When I closed up my office, I could find people who wanted everything
> else, from old magazines and newspapers, books, files of clippings,
> internal documents, schematics, even marketing materials from defunct
> companies, furniture, empty binders with company names on the spines,
> computers, unidentifiable circuit boards, 8 inch drives, Syquest drives,
> modems, weird cables, T shirts, trade show freebie crap, . . .
That's not so strange when you consider all this material will be (if it
isn't already) highly historic and useful for research in the future
(which is why I took all that "crap" :)
> I had a very difficult time getting anybody to take FREE monitors and FREE
> printers. The only way that I could get anybody to take them was to start
> boxing them up with S100 cards, etc. and making unbreakable package deals.
Well, I also collect various printers, monitors, and terminals. I'm
weird. But boring as they are, it's all part of the record, and needs
preserving.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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