[rescue] Computer Collection Dissolution

[Mouse]

Thank you very much for the update.

>> I am giving away my (almost) entire classic computer collection.
>> [...]

> First many thanks to the good wishes for my health situation.  I
> think in the mail it sounds worse than it is.  [...]  I hope to spend
> this time in good health and have a high quality of live.  A bunch of
> old computers are not worth to risk anything.  Simple, isn't it?

Yes...if that's true for you.  I'm glad to hear it is.  There are
people to whom a bunch of old computers _is_ worth the risk, because
they provide a substantial quality-of-life improvement.  (I used to be
one.  To a some extent - though much less than formerly - I still am.)

> Initially I was anxious that I might not get rid of all the stuff.
> Ohh, man.  I got overwhelmed by the amount of reactions and offers
> for help that arrived by e-mail.  Thanks to all who reached out.

Good.  I am never comfortable hearing about someone who's getting rid
of a whole collection, especially because they usually end, as yours
did, with some form of "if not claimed by $DATE they're going to the
skip/landfill/shredder/etc".  I'm most glad to hear that yours are all
going to good homes of one sort or another.

> [A]bout 90% of the requests I got was in the form "I want the SGI
> Octane, the Indigo 2 Impact, the PDP-11/73 and XYZ" Where XYZ was a
> bunch oc DEC or Sun stuff.

Heh.  I'm slightly surprised, though that is probably my own bias; I
find the Suns and VAXen more attractive than the SGIs.

As I said, I'm on the wrong continent for this.  I'm also trying to
declutter/dehoard my own stuff, so acquiring more is strongly
counterindicated.  But the things that I coveted most from your list
were the logic analyzer and the storage 'scope.  (I'd like some of the
the Suns and VAXen, to be sure, if I had unlimited space to put them in
and money to take care of them with.  I have neither.  And, while I'm
not sure I could take even the logic analyzer or 'scope even if they
were geographically close, they attract me more than the computers.)

But I now do not feel the biting "oh, I really wish..." I did when I
first read your post; I am far more at peace knowing, as I said, that
everything will go to a good home.

Thus, thank you.

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