6 Oct
2004
6 Oct
'04
10:49 p.m.
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, David V. Corbin wrote:
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I fail to see the connection between the following...
hmm, upon re-reading I see that you were referring to the EQUIPMENT dying,
not the owner of said equipment. Tony Vu's method was to find people in
distress so you could get their property for next to nothing.
Sorry :)~
>> >
Or be on the lookout for a Tek 1230 that has just
>> > died...Put the word
>> > out to people that have one...Often when something like
>> > this dies it
>> > just goes in the garbage. Make sure that everyone you
>> > know that knows
>> > someone that has one knows that you will give them CASH
>> > for the entire
>> > kit and kaboodle even though the analyzer itself has died
>> > [then you
>> > can scavange the carcass for parts]
>> >
>> > I have used this approach many times [on computer related
>> > and other
>> > stuff] and it WORKS!
>>
Sellam Ismail reponds....
>> This sounds like the Tom Vu method for
acquiring classic gear:
>>
>> "You so stupid! Look at you with your puny little
>> worthless computer collection, while I sit here atop this
>> pile of Altairs. Look, literally it's a pile of Altairs!
>> I get so many of these that I finally just started throwing
>> them into this pile, and now I can sit atop it like the
>> King of the Altairs and gloat while you sit there with your
>> pitiful Commodore 64 missing the '1' key! Listen to my
>> plan and I'll make you a classic computer GOD like me!!!"
>>