Leicas dumpstered? OMG !?
oh.... the humanity!!!!!!!
In a message dated 10/7/2016 5:18:44 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cisin at xenosoft.com writes:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> but.... if you were a hardcore mustang collector you would not sleep
> until you had every part that went with it...
Having been around when they came out, and still around when I did not buy
non-running rolling rebuildables for a few hundred dollars, I'm not likely
to ever become that hardcore Mustang collector!
I will sell my Leicas to the hardcore! (So that they won't get
dumpstered after I die, like CHead's did!)
> Maybe not astronomical, but most of the systems I'm interested in,
> anyways, are almost always outside my price range.
> ...
> it's not 'astronomical' just out of reach.
Look at old cars. There's a whole range, from $15M Ferraris on down. The
existence of cars are higher prices doesn't stop lots of people from enjoying
lower-priced ones.
I completely fail to see why old computers should be any different. Can
everyone afford a Ferrari? No. Has this seriously damaged old car collecting?
Doesn't see to have.
Noel
I'd like to see a dig like they did for the Atari ET carts where the Lisas are buried. ?Although, I think they were all Lisa 2s?
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-------- Original message --------
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
Date: 2016-10-07 4:58 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!]
On 10/07/2016 04:41 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 10/7/16 4:32 PM, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
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>> how astonishingly retarded that they sold for that much.
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> nah.. maybe Alan in Soquel will list the ones he's been hoarding.
In non-computer-related sales that initially commanded an outrageous
price, I've seen the prices of subsequent sales decline precipitously.
So Alan may not be in such a deliriously happy place.
Sort of like a stamp collector selling a specimen thought to be the only
one in existence and then discovering that there were 10 more out there.
In particular, I have to wonder how much of this stuff is buried in
overseas e-waste piles.
--Chuck
but.... if you were a hardcore mustang collector you would not sleep
until you had every part that went with it...
Ed#
In a message dated 10/7/2016 5:07:12 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cisin at xenosoft.com writes:
If I had a 65 Mustang, missing the ashtray, the only reason that I would
pay anything significant for NOS replacement would be if I had immediate
plans to sell it to somebody for whom that stuff matters.
Yes, I can see the differences between the original headlight assembly on
the Honda, and the Chinese imitation replacement. But, I don't care.
'Revolutionary Force' Bombs IBM Offices
Computer Word, March 18, 1970..
http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=654
Does anyone have a stash of these old Computer World's? I have found very
few online. I assume there is a complete set somewhere...?
Bill
Here's a scan - and special bonus audio tracks - of a brochure and 7"
record I found on ebay recently:
http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/EG%26G
"Data on a Platter" from a company called EG&G (anyone heard of them?)
describes their vinyl (as in analog audio record) data storage scheme
and how it will fit into your business. There's no date anywhere but
the brochure is a great example of 60s typefaces, not to mention
language. The recording includes examples of how the data sounds if
played on a regular phonograph. Who's up for decoding it?
-j
I don't get the lack of love here. Every good hacker knows the answer is because it can. I think it adds to the charm and shows the power of the Amiga quite well. Also it shows off the technology of a computer on a card technology.?
For the architecture wars fans it also reflects that they don't need a dreaded "pee see". In any event I'm a fan of emulation and hardware emulation I think is pretty solid technology vs the software counterparts.
In a demo story an Amiga employee in town said he did a demo of his Amiga 3000 tower on a tech TV show. While he was playing some music on the Amiga he started up his bridge board app and loaded Windows 3.x. Then while waiting for Windows to load switched windows to show a restore off an internal SCSI tape drive.
Pretty amazing technology. Plus you could even run a dos game then see the difference in the Amiga version ?(that'd be a great VCF demo).
-------- Original message --------From: Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> Date: 10/5/16 12:50 PM (GMT-06:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000
On Oct 4, 2016, at 7:13 PM, devin davison <lyokoboy0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It looks as if PC compatibility
Frankly, um, who cares?
A generous list member gifted me a DEC 3000 model 400 early alpha system. This is my first alpha and I'm excited to play around with VMS and Tru64 however he warned me that it was having some memory issues when he retired it several years ago. It does indeed appear to have some bad ram. I'm wondering if anyone on the list has memory modules they'd be willing to part with.
Is there anyone on this list who has a VNEbus Ethernet adapter?
I figure not, but I've been using a fair amount of alcohol to troll ePay
tonight, just out of morbid curiosity, and might as well ask.
mcl
