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Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-04-17, Dave Garland wrote:
>> On 4/16/2018 1:42 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>> On Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 9:24:47 PM UTC-4, Charles Richmond wrote:
> ...
>> If someone is a collector,
>>> the computer can be used to index the items within a collection,
>>> allowing sorting by different keywords (e.g. date, description,
>>> origin, etc.)
>>> 
>> From the day's of the first HP(?) "home computer" long before PCs 
>> appeared, this has been one of the suggested uses. And I'm sure it 
>> would work fine for that. But in over 3 decades of providing support, 
> 
> The cookie recipe database was a famous use case, but as far as I can
> tell it was dragged up as an attempt to justify a computer, not
> something someone actually *created*.  Justifying a home computer was
> really hard before the internet.
> 
>> I've yet to see anyone actually do it (for long, anyhow).
> 
> I keep some of that.  Bird observations, for example.
> But that's because:
> 
> - All serious birdwatchers keep track, and always have.
>   The data should survive longer than yourself.
>   
> - I'm too picky to use the online national database, being
>   a Unix programmer and all.  If I write something down, it
>   has to be text files under version control, fitting my own
>   requirements.
> 

Indexing record collections seemed to be a popular thing, especially as
there was a fairly large intersection between audiophiles and computer
hackers in the early days. Likewise ham radio operators.

-- 
Pete