On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:45 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
For me, financial gain turned out to be a byproduct.
?I jumped at the chance
to get a vintage IMSAI a few years ago. ?I'm still selling off the shedful
of stuff I was required to take along with the goodies I wanted. This is how
I fund my hobby now.
Not only does it fund the hobby, it generates interference for the
hobby's critics. "But....I can make it pay for itself, really!"
Sadly this doesn't hold true in all cases. Not until there's a
massive upswing in the collectibility of Commodore dot-matrix
printers, anyway.