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lilfluffTitle: Project PDP Purchase (PPP or P^3)
Fandom/'verse: Currently unnamed (working name: Capitalist Techno-Hippies)
Summary: Draft list of rules for a group planning to buy a PDP-1
Warnings/Triggers: Don't see any triggers.
Prompter: Random demifiction prompt made using An Owomoyela's demographics generator
Note: Mostly unedited
The following document is typed from a scanned copy in the Family Archives. Oral History interviews suggest it was most likely written in August of 1961. Before the year ended this handwritten list of proposed rules was rewritten into a contract (since lost, anyone who believes they have found a copy please contact the librarian!) and then in April of 1962 into the Manlow Farm Contract – the earliest ancestor of the current Family Charter.
Project PDP Purchase (PPP or P3)
1. Participants in this plan shall provide $5 monthly towards the project fund.
(Note: Item #2 is written in small letters in the space between the preceding and following lines)
2. Anyone participating less then twelve months shall be entitled solely to refund of their deposits, less bank's quoted cost for a cashiers check.
(Note: The line originally numbered as line 2 had its numeral crossed out with 3 written in)
3. Members continuing to share college rental house will have first choice of rooms at property to be purchased.
4. Any withdrawal of any amount, other than that provided for in item two, must be approved by 2/3rds of participants.
5. Participants agree to contribute 5% (five percent) of pay from jobs held between signing and completion of PDP purchase.
6. Project may be canceled by a vote of 3/4 of participants. Remaining funds will be divided on the basis of proportion of deposits made.
7. Meetings of the PDP Purchase Cooperative shall be held at least monthly, with notice given at least five days in advance.
7a. A donation of one quarter per attendee may be raised to pay for snacks and drinks.
(Note: See oral history interviews cited below for more on how these meetings became the monthly Family Celebrations. See also Family Holiday Calendar on the wiki.)
(Note: 7b is crossed out with, "We're all adults," written next to the line.)
7b. Anyone listed in meeting minutes as failing to donate towards snack and drink costs for two consecutive meetings may be denied snacks and drinks unless they pay in advance or provide acceptable food contribution.
8. Our goal is to purchase a PDP-1, useful supplementary equipment, and to pay for necessary work to have it installed in our own home – to also be purchased using these funds.
9. If we do not succeed in meeting this goal in ten years the project will be canceled unless a 3/4 vote of participants allows an extension.
10. Goal may be changed with a 2/3rds vote of participants. Changing the goal will not change the date for 9 above.
(Note: The goal was indeed changed to allow for the purchase of the far less expensive PDP-8 which became the first component of the Family's computing center.)
(Note: 11 and most of 12 are obscured due due to a water stain)
...sold proceeds shall be placed into the purchase fund.
(Note: There is a 13 written on the next line, but no text was written next to the 13.)
(Note: remainder of page is blank.)
Fandom/'verse: Currently unnamed (working name: Capitalist Techno-Hippies)
Summary: Draft list of rules for a group planning to buy a PDP-1
Warnings/Triggers: Don't see any triggers.
Prompter: Random demifiction prompt made using An Owomoyela's demographics generator
Note: Mostly unedited
The following document is typed from a scanned copy in the Family Archives. Oral History interviews suggest it was most likely written in August of 1961. Before the year ended this handwritten list of proposed rules was rewritten into a contract (since lost, anyone who believes they have found a copy please contact the librarian!) and then in April of 1962 into the Manlow Farm Contract – the earliest ancestor of the current Family Charter.
Project PDP Purchase (PPP or P3)
1. Participants in this plan shall provide $5 monthly towards the project fund.
(Note: Item #2 is written in small letters in the space between the preceding and following lines)
2. Anyone participating less then twelve months shall be entitled solely to refund of their deposits, less bank's quoted cost for a cashiers check.
(Note: The line originally numbered as line 2 had its numeral crossed out with 3 written in)
3. Members continuing to share college rental house will have first choice of rooms at property to be purchased.
4. Any withdrawal of any amount, other than that provided for in item two, must be approved by 2/3rds of participants.
5. Participants agree to contribute 5% (five percent) of pay from jobs held between signing and completion of PDP purchase.
6. Project may be canceled by a vote of 3/4 of participants. Remaining funds will be divided on the basis of proportion of deposits made.
7. Meetings of the PDP Purchase Cooperative shall be held at least monthly, with notice given at least five days in advance.
7a. A donation of one quarter per attendee may be raised to pay for snacks and drinks.
(Note: See oral history interviews cited below for more on how these meetings became the monthly Family Celebrations. See also Family Holiday Calendar on the wiki.)
(Note: 7b is crossed out with, "We're all adults," written next to the line.)
7b. Anyone listed in meeting minutes as failing to donate towards snack and drink costs for two consecutive meetings may be denied snacks and drinks unless they pay in advance or provide acceptable food contribution.
8. Our goal is to purchase a PDP-1, useful supplementary equipment, and to pay for necessary work to have it installed in our own home – to also be purchased using these funds.
9. If we do not succeed in meeting this goal in ten years the project will be canceled unless a 3/4 vote of participants allows an extension.
10. Goal may be changed with a 2/3rds vote of participants. Changing the goal will not change the date for 9 above.
(Note: The goal was indeed changed to allow for the purchase of the far less expensive PDP-8 which became the first component of the Family's computing center.)
(Note: 11 and most of 12 are obscured due due to a water stain)
...sold proceeds shall be placed into the purchase fund.
(Note: There is a 13 written on the next line, but no text was written next to the 13.)
(Note: remainder of page is blank.)
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Date: 2014-08-12 01:02 am (UTC)...Are you sure your cooperative aren't relatives of my Planners?
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Date: 2014-08-12 01:29 am (UTC)The quest to buy a PDP was originally a one-off goal; however on of the members of the group was an accounting major who successfully brought home the concept of the power of compound interest. Rather than closing out the fund they continue building it up even after the original purchases are made -- with a tradition forming of only spending the interest outside of emergencies.
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Date: 2014-08-12 01:31 am (UTC)