{"id":672,"date":"2025-09-25T13:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/?p=672"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:09:45","slug":"the-classic-computer-collectors-code-of-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/the-classic-computer-collectors-code-of-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"The Classic Computer Collector&#8217;s Code of Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a serious collector, I follow the Classic Computer Collector&#8217;s Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct is listed here for your reference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do my best to find a home for any classic or unwanted computer.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will return or destroy any personal or commercially sensitive data I find on a machine I acquire, and will keep it in the strictest confidence, should I find it necessary to view it.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will aid users in the decommissioning of their old machines, should they require assistance.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I respect active software and publication copyrights.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will, whenever possible, repair the computers in my collection and maintain them in working order, and will assist others in doing the same, to the best of my ability.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I actively encourage the repair, maintenance, and use of older computers, in preference to the irreversible alteration of machines and parts for non-computer applications.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I actively promote the exchange of computers, parts, and information among collectors, and will refrain from hoarding multiple examples of any item.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I actively promote ethical collecting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a serious collector, I follow the Classic Computer Collector&#8217;s Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct is listed here for your reference: I do my best to find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_citadela_custom_class":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"citadela-post-location":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-post-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.trs-80.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-post-location?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}