I can actually advise on the formation of some sort of organization (a foundation or ministry is the best kind, but a private trust is also a good option) into which ownership of one's collection can go, with instructions for continuity of the collection (or dispersal) after one's demise.
If anyone is interested, please contact me privately. I work on a donation basis through my law ministry. Sellam On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:49 PM Tomasz Rola via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 12:12:16PM -0500, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > At 09:15 AM 10/18/2022, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: > > >>Own your land. > > >>Museum or individual. > > > > > >You never own your land. They can always take it. > > > > Far more probable than someone taking your property? Wanting to give it > up. > > Needing to give it up. Or your death, and then someone else wants and > needs > > to get rid of it. > > > > A year ago today, someone made a great offer on my office building and I > had > > less than 30 days to move out 30 years and 4,500 square feet of crap. > > I managed to down-size into about 1,500 square feet. > > Some time ago I gave an advice to this group. Ok, it was half tongue > in cheek, but the more I read this thread, the more it seems like the > only viable way for classic hobbists. I.e. it looks not as stupid as > depending on goodwill of some future people, benevolence of the rich > etc. > > Basically, my advice was to make a friend for c-tech, either have a > friend in government or a friend in some well established church. > > It can be taken further - make preservation of old tech into the > constitution. Or, build a religion around it. This way, scraping > functional item would become federal offence or even a sin. Repairing > broken item and making it useful would become... well, I am not > sure. Generally those long term institutions are good in castigating > here and now, while promising good thing in a future (if you follow > their rules), so I guess it should be something like this - those who > get enough points (repair enough S100 cards) will be allowed > to... dunno, you would have to fill in the gaps. > > Otherwise, all collections are subject to random screwups, evictions, > vandalism, jokery (in my country, from time to time, one joker or > another burns churches, old, wooden, centuries-old, for the reason > known only to them - perhaps they think it is funny or are mentally > fucked, so destruction is only going to be mitigated, postponed, but > not stopped). > > If gubmints and churches smell too bad, I advice befriending scouts. > > You (c-tech hobby, c-computer collections) need a friend that is > rooted for by the people. Not because it can give money, but because > of some non-monetary achievement. A lot of people do various deeds to > defend constitution or come to clean their parish, but AFAIK not for > the money. Just MHO, as I am not quite a hobbist (just reading about > old stuff from time to time). > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** >
