On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:41 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Still,
considering that someone snatched that one up with a buy-it-now
option instead of waiting out the auction tells me that they aren't
common on ebay either.
Lots of people, including some of the mainframe collectors (big guns),
still think that the 029s and 129s are really rare. I suspect they are
not looking past their screens. For those of us that are actually
doing the legwork, the things just come around.
I'd sure like to know what planet you're on in which 029's "just come
around". Perhaps you'd be willing to share the wealth a bit? ;)
The closest thing to "vintage hardware" I've seen in this part of the
country is a middle-aged AS/400 and an Osborne 1...The only truly
interesting thing I've found here was the System/36 (5360) I picked up
last summer.
Vintage availability always varies by area - I've seen precisely nothing up
here, although doubtless a few odds and ends exist down in Minneapolis (but
that's still a 10 hour round-trip for me, so I can't easily find things and
just hop in a vehicle to go get them).
However, experience in the past has been that there's two routes to vintage
collecting:
1) Ebay
2) Not Ebay
:-) The second route seems to find more obscure stuff (as well as 'common'
items) and typically for free or beer money - but it's a lot of work to get
yourself established as a collector of ${foo} and then to actively seek out
items. The old time vs. money equation, I guess.
cheers
Jules