Pick memorabilia collections....and collectors?

[Makepeace Thwackery]

Hello, alll. As I lay awake a few nights ago, contemplating a long past and shorter future (as one does, when one reaches a Certain Age of Life), I remembered I still had down in deep basement storage some seriously ancient Pick memorabilia and mementos, including:

• Some green-bound (1974?) Reality 1.0 manuals;
• A "Rainbow" cover MIcrodata manual set, plus single gold-covered one (I think the latter is an Virtual Assembler manual);
• A pristine retail shelf copy of CDI/100, a particularly ill-fated Pick clone;
• 4 x 3.5" diskettes (and a dongle!) allowing one to load and run SequoiaPro on an x86 machine;
• 1/2" tape reels with various programs, including a port of Colossal Cave Adventure for Pick;
• Several 1980s-era marketing posters from Stratus and Sequoia;
• ....and lots of other ephemera - including, I believe, an original  (!) "Go Ask Henry" button.

Is anyone seriously collecting this kind of stuff for posterity, and/or is there someplace someone knows that it can go? (Especially a place where it won't just get dumpstered when the collector - who might be even older than I - shuffles off this mortal coil and his/her heirs can't begin to figure out what all this crap is?)

cheers for any information or suggestions!
D

(Henry K, if you're still here, I believe you were doing this kind of thing 20+ years ago, but I've no idea if you're still around or in the collector mode any more.)

[Brandon Robinson]

We absolutely collect this for the office and would love to display it here!

Let me know what we can do to arrange this!

[Jay LaBonte]

I collect all this as well via multivalue.world 

Take a look at the site document library. Everything you send me will be professionally scanned and posted to the site for everyone’s use. 

One we are done with it we have no problem send it to anyone else you choose that would like the physical items for their collection.

Regards 

Jay LaBonte

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On Feb 27, 2025, at 8:04 PM, Makepeace Thwackery <pcsw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Brandon - hellows, and sorry, but I'm rather out of it these days. Who is "we" and what is your office?

thanks D

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[Dawn Wolthuis]

I sent a box of materials to Jay and he started scanning them already. MultiValue World is a non-profit that plans to collect as much as feasible for scanning, preservation of digital assets, and distribution. Anything you pass to Jay would be great to get online there.  —Dawn

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I collect all this as well via multivalue.world 

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[Makepeace Thwackery]

Jay (+ Dawn) - thanks for the suggestion! - I had no idea that someone was going to all this time and trouble to preserve our collective history.

Jay, I'll be in touch, as you say regardless of the disposition of the physical items, it's great to know the actual knowledge would be scanned and preserved.

cheers! d

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[bdeck...@gmail.com]

Brandon.  Someone left a backpack at the bar.  I grabbed it and am at the mexi restaurant.  I think it may be Bramleys.   I'm on the patio

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[Nivethan T]

Jay,

Would you also make and post copies of the disks? I think there is a tremendous value in having this stuff available. Even if we can't get it running today, maybe some day someone will.

I made copies of a set of R83 disks that you can run, https://github.com/Krowemoh/R83 .

I'd also gladly pay shipping to get a copy of a marketing poster :)

[Anthony Youngman]

I hope he won't mind me pasting his link here, but my friend Bill used
to work for Stratus in exactly that era ... :-)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billhooper/

Cheers,
Wol

>> still had down in deep basement storage some /seriously/

>> ancient Pick memorabilia and mementos, including:
>>

>> * Some green-bound (1974?) Reality 1.0 manuals;
>> * A "Rainbow" cover MIcrodata manual set, plus single

>> gold-covered one (I think the latter is an Virtual
>> Assembler manual);

>> * A pristine retail shelf copy of CDI/100, a
>> particularly ill-fated Pick clone;
>> * 4 x 3.5" diskettes (and a dongle!) allowing one to

>> load and run SequoiaPro on an x86 machine;

>> * 1/2" tape reels with various programs, including a

>> port of Colossal Cave Adventure for Pick;

>> * Several 1980s-era marketing posters from Stratus and
>> Sequoia;
>> * ....and lots of other ephemera - including, I believe,

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