Collectors worldwide, UNITE!

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon Jun 2 16:35:00 2003

> Over the weekend, a thought has been taking shape inside my head:
>
> What if we made a Grand Unified Union of Computing Collectors? Okay, GUUCC
> doesn't pronounce well. "Geeewkhkh". (shudder) How about Collector's
> International Association... Erm, nope. ;) International Computer Artifact
> Preservation Society! ICAPS sounds good. Or, if you totally disagree with
> it all, send a suggestion.
>
> OK, www.ipacs.org. What should it contain?
>
> -A member's directory with all the computers he/she owns

My first worry about this is that some machines are now quite valuable
(e.g. on E-bay), and having a public list of owners might attract the
wrong sort of attention...

There are a few machines that I own that I will not _publically_ admit to
owning (not even on this list), altough it's sometimes fairly obvious
that I've at least worked on one. I know of other collectors who feel
likewise about their rarer artefacts.

> One would then click the entry link, and open up a window with pictures

Thus ruling out all peopls who don't have digital cameras or scanners...

> IPACS would also allow for sharing of storage space, people splitting the
> bill for major warehouses?

Does this need to be formalised in this way. If 2 collectors are going to
share storage space, I guess they must live pretty close together and
therefore know each other anyway.

-tony
Received on Mon Jun 02 2003 - 16:35:00 BST