List charter mods & headcount... ;-)

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Wed Jun 16 21:26:30 2004

> Well if you guys started collecting back in 97-98 you probably got quite a
> few expensive computers for next to nothing,

Yep! [grinning]

> which is allot harder to do
> today when there are more people in the hobby. I didn't start until 3 or so
> years ago, but I don't go for the rarities anyway.

On the flip side, for those os us that have been collecting for a long
time (for me, it's almost 20 years since I bought a PDP-8/S of $5.00
[grinning, again]), we are cursed by all of the machines we culd have had,
but passed up (like an old Amdahl [not grinning]).
 
> P.S. Anybody here get into the Computer Chronicles TV show from the 80's and
> 90's? There is an ftp site that has tons of episodes in mpeg format (1gb per
> 30 mins or so). I grabbed a few so far and they bring back the memories I
> had of watching the PBS show in the 80's.

A neat show. I remember a computer show from the early 1980s that would
air on the PBS educational stations (channel 20 in Chicago - "lots of
watch TV for college credit" shows from the Annenburg CPB Project) quite a
bit that was sort of an introduction to data processing. Each show would
focus on one topic, just as a textbook would. VERY cool, as there would be
lots of shots of early 80s computer rooms. PCs were just getting into the
game (note: real PCs, not PeeCees), so the micros in the show were
classics. Lots of mini and mainframe goodies, even a show on
supercomputers.

I can not remember the name of the show, and I doubt anyone still shows
it.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Wed Jun 16 2004 - 21:26:30 BST