[Milsurplus] Saving stuff
Peter Gottlieb
nerd at verizon.net
Mon May 20 23:18:52 EDT 2013
Anyone need an RDO with UHF tuning unit? The thing actually works!
Don't know how it would be shipped though.
On 5/20/2013 11:15 PM, Hue Miller wrote:
> 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 ______________________________________________________________
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