Discussion of large systems

[Doc Shipley]

Tim Shoppa wrote:
> ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
>> I would agree. I haev 3 or 4 pre-1975 Unibus PDP11s, a PDP8/e, a Philips 
>> P850 and an HP9830 (along with a couple of 9100Bs, a couple of 9810s and 
>> a 9820 if you count those as computers).
> 
> I can forsee a world where computers are being saved, but peripherals
> and special-purpose machines (calculators, industrial controllers,
> sequencers, etc.) are not.
> 
> Private collectors fall into the same trap as the institutions
> and museums, ending up with lots of CPU's but few of the necessary
> peripherals.

   This may be true of the minority; I wouldn't know how to quantify 
that.  I do know that far more of my available cubic yardage is occupied 
by storage peripherals and media than by system cabinets.

   I also think that "private collectors subscribed to ClassicCmp" are 
less likely to fall into that trap than collectors at large.  We make 
this point well and often.


	Doc