Hardware/doc preservatoion, was Re: rarest computers.

[Tom Jennings]

> Jules Richardson wrote:

> > Typically people seem to collect such things for the hardware itself;...
> > Seems a shame that often no effort is made to
> > preserve the data from the time itself, just the physical hardware.


On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 05:05, Hans B PUFAL wrote:

> 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!!

YES!! Old data, old notes, manuals, tapes, discs, anything anything
anything. Software is hard to keep, but worth more than anything else.