SWTPC craze

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: SWTPC craze
>   From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
>   Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:04:44 -0400
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>
>On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Jay West wrote:
>> To which Richard replied....
>>> Dude.  10 years ago I don't know if this "hobby" was on anyone's  
>>> radar.
>> I beg to differ. There's quite a few listmembers here that were  
>> active in the hobby 10+ years ago. I'm also certain there were a  
>> good number of people doing it well over 10 years ago that still  
>> aren't on this list. A relative newcomer to the hobby wouldn't  
>> usually be aware of this. Just because this list wasn't around 15  
>> years ago doesn't mean there wasn't a lot of people collecting.
>
>   >10 years ago, I was adopting and hacking on PDP-8 and PDP-11  
>systems because it was fun, and I thought it was important to  
>understand and preserve the technology.  I don't think I ever really  
>considered the notion of it being "a hobby" or any other structured,  
>labelable/quantifiable thing.  I just *did* it, because I wanted to.   
>Just like today...except now it has a name.
>
>           -Dave

Wow!  Ten years ago I'd been at it collecting that is for more than 
20 years.  So yes collecting computers is far older than that.

DEC had a computer history collection in their MRO facility going 
back to before 1983.

Allison