Hardware/doc preservatoion, was Re: rarest computers.

[Hans B PUFAL]

Jules Richardson wrote:

> Typically people seem to collect such things for the hardware itself;
> i.e. hard disks or floppies get re-formatted and paper documentation
> gets thrown in the bin. Seems a shame that often no effort is made to
> preserve the data from the time itself, just the physical hardware.

AAAaaarrrggghhh... As I am always pounding into anyone that will listen, 
hardware with no documentation is practically useless. Documentation 
alone could be sufficient to rebuild the hardware. Therefore given the 
choice save the docs!!

   -- HansP