Re: Applied Engineering Spring/Summer - 1988 Product Catalog online

["Dave Warren" <dwarren@tds.net>]

I won't speak for anybody else, but I enjoy looking at old cataolgs.
I can't really give a specific reason. I always hated history in school,
but computer history in any form interests me. I wish I still had all the
Atari 2600 catalogs I threw away in the early 80s.

Dave

<tturner@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message 392f49b5@ecn.ab.ca">news:392f49b5@ecn.ab.ca...
> --> Hey, no offense meant - but what's the big deal about an old AE
>     product catalog?  I just checked and I've got the 1987 catalog
>     that came with my Serial Pro and another one that came with
>     my RAMWORKS III & RGB add-on, so I've got the '87 Spring/Summer
>     and the '87 Summer/Fall - they're just glossy advertising and
>     nothing more than filler in those giant AE ziplock baggies.
>
>     24 pgs, a bunch of products, pictures and specs and glowing hard
>     sell.  Methinks you are giving it too much importance - but that
>     may just be moi . . .
>
>     I've got 4 or 5 AE cards - they all came with catalogs that were
>     tossed.  These got kept because I forgot about them.  All they
>     are now, is `packaging ambiance', for lack of a better phrase.
>
>     Now the AE <whatever> User's Manuals - now those may be useful,
>     but an old product catalog?  I dunno - maybe others won't feel
>     as I do and as I said - no offense meant - it's just not much
>     of an A2 `treat', AFAICT.
>
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