March to Obsolescence
July 20, 2011 by admin
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March to Obsolescence
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The seller told me some interesting things about radio collecting: he thought it was on a dying trajectory.
Old-timers are eager to share their information about old models and their care and maintenance because few people seem interested any more. Nobody’s coming in to perpetuate the hobby to a new generation.
It’s not hard to figure out why. I’m probably the second or even the third generation of adults for whom radio was, at best, a periphal part of childhood. There was a radio in the kitchen that would sometimes be on while we got breakfast and would always be on if there was a possibility of a snow day. Otherwise? I’ve no nostalgia for these things.
Childhood nostalgia can be some really powerful mojo. I like to think that I love "Star Wars" because it’s a legitimately great, timeless classic. I’d somehow be disappointed if this were just lingering affection for something that was a huge part of my childhood.
I do indeed own a lot of vintage computers. Why do I buy them? Because I think they’re cool, and I love the history of the technology, and I like to fire these things up occasionally.
Today, it occurred to me that the same irrelevance that hit the radio collecting hobby might one day kill computer collecting. When I was a kid, computers were exotic and my fascination with them defined me. The washing machine, the toaster, and (yes) the radio were just common appliances.
If computer collecting does suffer that same fate, that’s fine by me. Maybe I can finally afford an IMSAI 8080 or an Apple I.
