APF Imagination Machine

kurtk7(a)visi.com wrote: At least you have the pleasure of having driven up the price for the guy who won it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2737531463&categ… They don't show up very often on ebay (not the computer part) and certainly the one that just sold was the most complete such system I've seen. In my own limited experience, you can probably get the system you want, but the highest leverage way I've found takes these two things: 1) put up a web page dedicated to the machine. a good one. one that shows you are serious about it and one that supplies a lot of interesting information. one that other people will find first when they do a web search. some day one of those people searching will be an owner of such a machine and they'll contact you. 2) patience. lots of it. I'm sure right now that feeling of needing to own one is overwhelming since you just got so close, but you must also realize that you spent the previous 20 years in bliss after having forgotten about the machine. It may take two or three years, but it does happen. The bees do eventually find the flowers. You can also go out and beat the bushes, do frequent google searches looking for other owners or people who mentioned owning one in an old usenet posting, haunt every goodwill/salvation army, hit lots of yard sales, etc, etc. The best approach is to do all of the above. I got the idea in my head to locate a wang 2200 four or so years ago. It was the machine I first learned to program. After two years of hitting nothing but dead ends and not seeing a single one on ebay or at any swap meet, I decided to put up a web site. Within 6 months I had one. A year later I had a second one. Oh, another cosmic side effect is that within a month of acquiring my first 2200, two showed up on ebay. Good luck finding that Imagination Machine.