11 Jun
2001
11 Jun
'01
3:59 a.m.
If you pay attention to the posts on this list, you'll see lots of occasions
where people "part-out" systems in order to resurrect others as opposed to
junking the whole, non-functional, thing. It's no crime to recycle what would
otherwise go in the dumpster. How many PC-Jr's do you think a person, or, for
that matter, the world, needs? How many non-functional ones do you think are
warranted?
There are some folks who think dead computers are of value for something other
than parts, but I don't know very many. Give the sensible ones a break, will
you?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Brutman" <mbbrutman(a)bresnanlink.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:11 AM
Subject: Ebay horror ...
I'm so mad. I'm watching on Ebay now as a
greedy seller takes
apart a PCjr, and parts out the individual pieces for obscene
amounts of money compared the the cost of an intact system
unit.
We're talking almost a complete disassembly - he has even
removed the IR receiver for the keyboard from the motherboard,
and is selling that bundled with a keyboard. That part has
no use without the motherboard.
The power card, floppy drive card, parallel printer sidecar,
and the "RARE" 64Kb memory card are also being listed
separately.
I polite email to the seller suggesting that the machine is more
valuable as a unit basically came back as "I sold one part,
the rest is all gravy, I know what I'm doing so mind your own
business."
So distasteful .... I wish there was a way to blacklist people
like this.
Mike