About Veritas, Was Re: Message for Joe Heck - re. 7 Track tape drives

From: Jim Davis <jpdavis_at_gorge.net>
Date: Fri Dec 19 14:52:51 2003

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, John Lawson wrote:
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>> All this is getting to the definition of the boundaries between
>>'amateur' and 'professional/commercial' and where we, as private
>>collectors and hobbyists, stand in realtion to these issues. Also the
>>perennial love/hate eBay issues come up - what aspects of commercial
>>legacy computing helps the Hobby? What damages it?
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>While this has always been and remains a (cherised) hobby for me, it is
>also a very commercial interest as I have turned it into such for myself
>(mostly because I don't want to have a real job). Heck, every message I
>post is a blatant advertisement (see the proof below).
>
>Look, there's enough to go around for everyone. This mailing list serves
>a panorama of various uses: hobbyist, commercial, even sociological (in
>the future, people will surely study our messages to understand the
>dynamics of a dysfunctional online group :) People in business who need
>old computing resources would be stupid to find out about us and then just
>pass us by thinking that they shouldn't disturb our cozy little world.
>
>So in conclusion, what I'm trying to say is that I agree with Juan.
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I think if equipment was supplied, a great deal would be to arrange
access to their stable of data conversion
equipment.in trade, With unlimited access? ;-)
Jim Davis.
Received on Fri Dec 19 2003 - 14:52:51 GMT