Lost Vector Computers to Another Start up

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Aug 12 17:46:27 2004

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Keys wrote:

> A guy contacted me back on the 10th offering me a complete line of Vector
> Graphic Computers. Hardware, manuals (tech & user), and sales literature for
> all of it, free for pickup. Asked him the same day when and were could I
> pick it all up and today I get my answer back saying it's all gone to a
> startup computer museum at the UT-Arlington campus. Talk about bad luck and
> everyone here in Texas wanting to start a computer museum.

Why is that bad luck? I see it as positive that more oragnizations are
popping up to preserve this stuff. One organization should not have
everything anyway. What if that organization has financial problems or,
worse, goes under?

We've seen this in the past, and it is not pretty.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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