[sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!

[Charles Bisaillon]

Aren't we all geeks in our own personal way?

(thought for the day... Mmmm)

Charles







Le 2/25/05 6:34 AM, « Daniel Araya » <daniel.araya at sr.se> a écrit :

> It's friday so I thought I'll share something amusing:
> 
> http://www.antiquetech.com/
> 
> 
> My favourite quotes:
> 
> "There is a general debate in the collecting community as to which is
> better, individual chips or mounted chips."
> 
> "Pulled or desoldered chips are a fact of life in chip collecting."
> 
> "Carefully pulled chips can be aesthetically very pleasing.
> 
> "The Common Chip Grading Methodology (CCGM) provides for a 100 point
> scale, not dissimilar to coin grading."
> 
> 
> The funniest part is the collector archetypes page decribing the
> conflicts and relationships between different types of chip-collectors!
> http://www.antiquetech.com/hobby/Collection%20Archetypes.htm
> 
> 
> I think it's good that people guard our technological heritage but
> sometimes it goes a _bit_ too far... :)
> 
> 
> /d
> 


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