Collectors worldwide, UNITE!

From: J.C. Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Mon Jun 2 17:26:01 2003

        What kind of machine could one possibly not admit to owning? That's seems
pretty wierd.

        --John

On Monday 02 June 2003 17:28 pm, Tony Duell wrote:
> > 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 - 17:26:01 BST