19 Apr
1999
19 Apr
'99
5:27 p.m.
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I don't see what the big attraction to a core plane is. You stick it on
your wall. Whoopee! Look at me, I have a core plane on my wall. Big
fricken deal. Nobody even knows what it is anyway. From afar it looks
like a black square. Closer up it looks like a piece of a window screen.
Unfortunately, my rant is not going to stop the lame-o's selling it from
hyping it up as some cool collectable, and it's not going to stop the
techno-wannabees from buying it to stick on their wall.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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I'd buy
the core at $100, since that way you do have the working 8K for
your PDP. Then I'd try to mend the broken core plane that you already
have. If you fail, well you still have a machine with 8K in it (you'd be
kicking yourself, I think if you couldn't fix the old core and couldn't
still get a replacement).
It seems the prudent thing to do, I was mostly just writhing about having
to pay double of what _I_ think it's worth. I was polling for a sanity
check to see if my expectations were unreasonable, or if the expectations
of those stick-it-on-a-bookshelf collectors were.