It's too bad that I catch myself thinking this so frequently these days, but "thank goodness I got mine" ... before the scene blew up... I guess the good times of just pulling carloads of cool stuff out of the dumpster for nothing couldn't go on forever... I do tend to agree; at least it's getting preserved; but it's a shame if the financial barrier to entry to the hobby is keeping potentially interested & enthusiastic people away... Like you, I'd rather see someone playing with the machine; taking it apart; fooling around; not having it just sit there in a glass case or being just another addition to some guy's hoard who just has to have it all...
Best, Sean On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Ian S. King <isk...@uw.edu> wrote: > The down side is that some historically significant artifacts will be > purchased by rich twits who will stick them in a closet or a display case. > The up side is that those same artifacts didn't go to the skip, as they did > all too often, all too recently. And history demonstrates that they will > come back out of those closets (or garages, in the case of vintage > automobiles and motorcycles) and end up in the hands of preservationists. > > We're seeing a tipping point where at least some people are beginning to > see the urgency of preserving our digital *hardware* legacy, even if profit > is the driver. As I said, it's not going into a dumpster.... -- Ian > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Kevin Parker <tras...@internode.on.net> > wrote: > > > May be of interest to some list members - appeared in the Sydney Morning > > Herald Digital Life section yesterday. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately I'm not one of the big spenders. > > > > > > > > I know the story about the $200,000 Apple has got a fair airing but some > of > > the other numbers being quoted here frighten me. > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/discarded-apple-i-worth > > -us200000-collectors-pay-big-money-for-old-tech-20150610-ghfmlu.html > > > > > > > > > > > > ++++++++++ > > > > Kevin Parker > > > > > > > > ++++++++++ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate > The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> > > Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> > Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> > > University of Washington > > There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China." >
