This is sad...

Geoff Oltmans oltmansg at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 18:03:22 CDT 2015


Well, as was mentioned before,  nothing stopping a determined enough collector from repairing it...

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> On Oct 3, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
> 
>> On 2015-10-03 22:47, Geoff Oltmans wrote:
>> On the downside they could have ended up in the dump many years ago...
> 
> True.
> But in this case - what's the difference?
> 
>    Johnny
> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Oct 3, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 2015-10-03 20:36, Lyle Bickley wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 20:31:53 +0200
>>>> Mattis Lind <mattislind at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/111410385883
>>>>> 
>>>>> 10 left 27 sold.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Once they could have been used by someone. Now they can only be used as a
>>>>> conversation piece hanged on the wall.
>>>> 
>>>> I know the seller. He is very knowledgeable about vintage HP systems - and all of these have bad (as in unrepairable) cores.
>>> 
>>> In many cases they are repairable, if someone just cares enough...
>>> 
>>>    Johnny
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>>>                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
>>> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
>>> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
> 
> 
> -- 
> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol


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