On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, John Lawson wrote:
> I have been active in this hobby for many years, have owned several very
> rare systems and devices, and rescued and put back in service my share of
> legacy computing machinery, software and docs and books. I give a lot of
> volunteer time as well. I deplore folks who tear up computing history for
> 'art' if there's a good chance that a system could be 'saved' otherwise.
> There is a special place in Hell for one individual of my acquaintance,
> who's "hobby" is collecting just the console panels from mainframes and
> minis - the which Hobby he pursues with screwdriver and diagonal cutters.
> He sees nothing wrong with that activity, BTW... ;{}
Yep, I vouch for John here and back him up.
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