Let people know about collectors

William Donzelli wrote: I agree, there are alot of lazy people out there trying to make a fast buck, if they even had the hint of possible cash from their VIC-20 they would be banging on your door demanding you pay them $300 for the thing. Take for instance, baseball cards, you know those thin pieces of cheap to decent quality CARDBOARD, or dolls, or old toys, etc. Just be glad no one has compiled a list or a sellers/buyers guide my friends! The post about the Altair skyrocketing is probably due to the hype generated by Steve Levy's Hackers as well as the media about the Altair being 'the first home computer', I've notiuced a bunch of ya-hoos on the internet looking for their bit of computer history (which they never experienced till they got their IBM clone and they probably well be dissapointed to learn that they can't even run Lotus on it.) I get computers mainly because I ran a Commodore Group and am the area's contact for Commodore information, so people come up and ask me, 'hey you got any use for a ???' I usually say no, I collect them but am too broke to buy em; they ususually give em to me, (thanks mainly to my assistance I had provided in years past). Also thrift shops and used bookstores, some bookstores will toss the older computer books (after being burned by all those punched-card machine texts floding them years back), so make sure you let them know you appreciate them having the older micro books. Larry Anderson