[Coco] Link for Howard Luckey

[briang0671]

On 01/21/2010 04:03 PM, Joel Ewy wrote:
> Do you think whoever is in charge of Howard's estate knows the value 
> of his CoCo and MM/1 equipment?  I don't mean its monetary value so 
> much as its significance to people who are interested in such things.  
> He probably would have wanted them to be appreciated for what they are 
> rather than being appraised as electronic waste.  He may well have 
> made some plans for them, as his gift to WMU suggests that he was 
> mindful of such things.  I think that our grief at Howard's passing 
> would be compounded if his MM/1 and MM/1a were mistaken for '286 or 
> '386 era PC clones and discarded accordingly.
>
> Perhaps his having been the Glenside president would give the club 
> some standing to respectfully, and in the proper time, ask the estate 
> if it is aware of the significance of his CoCo-related hardware.  Even 
> if the estate just sells it on ebay, it will have a higher possibility 
> of going to someone who can appreciate it, than if it is just viewed 
> as run-of-the-mill obsolete computer equipment.
>
> JCE

I spoke with Patti I mentioned that if they could not identify the 
equipment, it was probably club stuff and I would take care of it. We 
will look it over at some other time.

Brian Goers