From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 24287 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2023 03:33:35 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 30 Jul 2023 03:33:35 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425F340AE2; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:33:33 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1690688013; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-owner:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=uPOK49GCh7jWu2FvQZgXX7Prp/1K4Vpf8dNF7IiZMXs=; b=Qh7npEYMzEkBWAlI2lxeri90lz/QkG+zz7DsxbN3ndbvocNsm75DVvAozLAkBEd9Fu5dJ/ vmHUhfLZaaGrpoFNsy+mOo6tiadig38WXXicHdEdWtbYtKh0UhoFiEG5ZNqxN4dp4pg9y/ RRoobE1ZH5dVP1a15SEhTKLUKgdFRp8= Received: from mail-40135.protonmail.ch (mail-40135.protonmail.ch [185.70.40.135]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF907409B7 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:33:22 +1000 (AEST) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 03:33:06 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1690688000; x=1690947200; bh=uPOK49GCh7jWu2FvQZgXX7Prp/1K4Vpf8dNF7IiZMXs=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=kUzvFtCU/cO5eDJDoyfDT9mrq+mdD8qX6JnCXBMoVyi8Y2ir1qA7Qc0J+TyaFB2cD fK166F/1ydmxkmJ4nFEiJ1sA/GyarDP9cwAk2OQZPKcmvFsqnK7cVIgp+ytBLHFkkW 2asCuz3xPJln/YfNoT6HptlGXD/lfTpkMlRdVFT2g//un8balosx2VXEN4CC7nO5t2 6NYhyqeUGpLDKdbhtwakcip2sL81u92eJwY6QUJxFFmKlOzFUCvULljET0OQhvDWRU kqn9lWwx65aEQPlO+5aHFNVuMsynuT5kemWJl9rGbowzJOmE2DA7IOhwy4lf0qs0hJ 944n0fWl5TddQ== To: steve jenkin Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <8B61E61D-E6CD-4B30-8188-3D42A3BDA92E@canb.auug.org.au> References: <8B61E61D-E6CD-4B30-8188-3D42A3BDA92E@canb.auug.org.au> Feedback-ID: 35591162:user:proton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: 6ROKWQUKXS53QPHTEGBWWFF5XADREFJY X-Message-ID-Hash: 6ROKWQUKXS53QPHTEGBWWFF5XADREFJY X-MailFrom: segaloco@protonmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: COFF X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: Typical Fate of Older Hardware List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: segaloco via COFF Reply-To: segaloco > How far back are you talking? > I think drawing a time box (start, end) around what you collect > would give you returns. > ... > Steve Jenkin I actually don't consider myself much of a collector of anything besides in= formation. Even the physical books and such I've accumulated lately, save = for select pieces, I eventually want to get into some other library. I'm n= ot on the hunt for some piece of hardware I want to order and keep around h= ere, rather, seeing if there's avenues I should keep my eye on while search= ing around for documents and other history that, say, I could then get the = CHM or another involved with. For instance, one "goal" if you will is to s= omehow run down a (working or not) 3B20S and put the right folks in contact= to see about preserving the thing. Even better if I can travel and help w= ith some of the restore, but honestly at the end of the day I'm just after = lost history. That said, hardware significant to the pre-divestiture UNIX-and-adjacent hi= story takes priority with me, stuff like Interdata 32-bit, various 3B machi= nes, etc. so to put years on it would be 69-84. I'm actually kicking mysel= f because there was a MacTutor (WE Mac-8 SBC) on eBay this past couple of y= ears and it had been bought by the time I made up my mind on it. My hope w= as to document it as much as I could and then see if LCM or CHM were intere= sted in it for their archives. I do have a AT&T UNIX PC I intend to get rolling eventually but that's abou= t as far as my on-hand hardware ambitions go, and certainly isn't relevant = to early history. I would maybe go for a higher end SGI for myself if I fo= und one at an agreeable price, but even that would be mostly to experiment = with IRIS GL and their specific graphics hardware. I'm trying not to let t= oo many hardware distractions get between me and my SBC experiments though,= too much coding for the past will keep me from coding for the present. Af= ter all, one of my chief personal motivations in studying the past is to be= tter understand how we got here and where we're headed. - Matt G.