[Milsurplus] Saving stuff

[Hue Miller]

Actually, there is some value to just saving things, as long as it's not 
really "rotting";  as long as it's being preserved across time. I recall
the estate sale of one blessed packrat in Seattle, William Zinn. He
somehow derived enjoyment from preserving stuff that no doubt
had seen a nadir in its value many years ago. No doubt people 
shook their heads at his saving old radio manuals, seagoing
radio operator logs, ITU Berne station lists, silent film era
movie magazines, and so on and so on, Alaska Steamship
Company colorful matches and ashtrays, all kinds of neat trivia.
I'd say the world is a little richer for his having set the stuff
aside.
You know, the 2 RAT receivers I traded to Tony Grogan
in the 1980s ? - those came from a guy who stored them, in
their original boxes, and did NOT "convert" them. He only
took them out once in a while, to look at them. So did he do
wrong?
-Hue Miller