Jules Richardson wrote on "Digital Archaeology of the Microcomputer, 1974-1994

[Richard]

In article <e1d20d630701181408t10c4f66cu3d6c83b5d44592e7 at mail.gmail.com>,
    "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com>  writes:

> > Sure.  Now.  But I don't think collecting housewares was common in
> > Henry Ford's day.
> 
> Think again.
> 
> Actually, more people collected everyday objects back then, but not
> for collecting's sake - they used them.

That's what I mean -- few people collected them at the time for
collecting's sake.  If you're getting objects for utilitarian
purposes, I don't think that qualifies as "collecting".
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