18 May
2016
18 May
'16
3:32 p.m.
AH yea.. the gold scrappers don't get me going ....
Brand new "NIB" Minuteman I D-17 computer section, the whole thing in
a wooden crate.
Even had the white exterior panels, remember them each had "Warning
Magnesium" stamped on the inside. Was around 1985.
Offered $100 about 2 x scrap, he said he would think about it.. came
back a couple days later, yep .. scrapped for the $20 of gold it may
of had in it
I was able to salvage the disk memory .. still have it, can be seen in
the Wikipedia picture Everytime I see it I get pissed. It would have
made a cool living room table !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B#/media/File:Autonetics_D-17.JPG
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:43 PM, George Currie <g at kurico.com> wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2016 14:50:17 -0600 (MDT), Swift
Griggs
<swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting shame,
let go of at some point and now I feel like it was a mistake:
It wasn't one I ever really possessed so technically it wasn't a throw/sell
away, but it was one that got away.
That as an AT&T Pixel Machines PXM900. It was at an university auction, I
had already gone way over budget and I would have had to bid on the entire
pallet of stuff in order to get it. I anguished, bid anyway, got outbid and
declined to bid further. I immediately regretted the decision, contacted
the buyer right after the auction, he told me he'd get back to me on Monday
(yeah, you can see it coming). When I called on Monday, he was glowing
about how much gold was in the thing and he had already scrapped it :(
I still regret that decision to this day (if it wasn't already obvious).
Sigh.