On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
>
>> It's completely useless to have lots of ego-database projects. Better
>> join an existing: first of all, there's already Tizianos great list
>> and collectors data base, now at
>> http://www.1000bit.net/
>> (formerly known as Il mio angelo - My Angel :)
>> He has redone his website during this summer, and it's most definitly
>> worth to give it a try. To my knowledge it's the largest existing
>> cooperative project in this area. If your unhappy with some features,
>> just tell him, and I bet he will update them soon.
>
> Tiziano's site is cool but it suffers from not having a complete
> database
> of computer makes and models. All in all, it's a nice effort.
>
>> Second, our beloved friend an all time hot shoot Sallam is tries to
>> setup a similar system on his vintage market place. So, if a european
>> source is suspect to you, go ahead and see what he has in mind.
>
> The added advantage of the VCM database system is that it ties in to
> the
> sales and trades. You can input your entire collection if you like or
> just the items you wish to sell. In either case, whenever you sell or
> acquire an item, the record for that item is transfered to the new
> owner,
> thus automatically creating a line of provenance, which for rare and
> exceptional items will be critical for future historical and monetary
> valuations. After a while, with an item trading hands several times
> (and
> as long as it all takes place on the VCM) you'll be able to know
> everyone
> who owned your item before you: very cool.
Sellam's marketplace is nice. but it does it have a place for technical
notes,
procedures, how-tos, stories. How do I bring up a real PDP11 with
blinkenlights
and switches from cold iron? How do I install VMS on a vintage VAX?
What do I need
to know before I go and buy that vintage VAX?
>
>> wikipedia.org already houses some quite extensive information about
>> classic machinery. Just check Atari, Osborne or DEC
>
> Someone did a very decent Altair 8800 write-up as well.
>
> I've been playing around with Wiki very briefly in recent days and
> find it
> to be quite cool, and I think it is probably a permanent fixture in our
> human culture. It's something that could have only come about with the
> internet, and it puts the power of historical record into the hands of
> ordinary folks, something that should scare the hell out of power
> whores.
> No longer will history be written by the victors. Haha. Fuckers.
>
>> *1 - Just recently I heared that wikipedia surpasses the actual issue
>> of the encyclopedia Britanica in terms of size (words) and topics
>
Wikipidia is fine. Can we have our timeline on a page to point to
pages about systems?
> That's pretty amazing! It hasn't been around THAT long. Cool.
>
> So anyway, I agree with Hans. Put all your vintage computer Wiki
> entries
> into the Wikipedia.
>
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