Re: giant nadanet?

["N.N. Thayer" <nnthayer@hotmail.com>]

On Feb 7, 2:19 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> A good collection of any one platform, certainly of one as prolific as
> the Apple II, would be quite large--larger than could be accommodated
> for multiple platforms without prodigious amounts of space.
>
> And, while preservation is clearly a necessary goal, the kind of thing
> I envision would encourage use, even experimentation and modification,
> which clearly go beyond a museum's charter.

I guess it's a foregone conclusion that the set of people still
interested in active experimentation with these platforms - an arcane
sub-area of an arcane area of a still-arcane field - is way, way too
geographically dispersed to make any single locus for it sustainable.
And it's a pretty high barrier of entry for anyone without a pre-
existing interest, for reasons that go beyond technical.

> I've been curious over the years about how the average age of the
> community is changing with time.  I'm sure it's not increasing at
> the rate of a year per year, but it probably isn't much lower.

I'm only 28, so there's one outlier data point, anyway!