> On Sep 11, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Noel Chiappa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
> I don't think anyone looks down on the more obscure machines, in fact I
> personally (and many others, I suspect) are very happy to see people paying
> attention to them, and my respects to the people who are working to save them.
One of the problems with "obscure European machinery" is that documentation is
not available. No Siemens computers, for example. And the only trace I have
found of the Philips PR8000 is a one line mention in a list of computers, just
enough to confirm that's the machine I once used whose model number I had
forgotten.
It's not clear why this is so. Fewer collectors? Not much commercial success
for some or many of those machines?
paul
