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Date: Mon Jun 2 18:32:00 2003

> What kind of machine could one possibly not admit to owning?


a PC ?





At 06:25 PM 6/2/03 -0400, you wrote:
> 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
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