LEAST valuable collectibles (was: Apple II boards

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Fri Jan 25 09:51:26 2002

I second the last statement about the to collect monitors, printers, and
etc., I too have tons of these items but hope to trim it to just the
working items this summer.
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From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: LEAST valuable collectibles (was: Apple II boards


> 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
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