14 Aug
1998
14 Aug
'98
2:20 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I am, alas, convinced that high prices have ruined
several other
hobbies
(old radios, particularly) that I was once interested in. No flames
for
the people who sell at those prices - that's just good business. But
it's
a pity that I have to look at old radio schematics only, and not the
actual sets in a lot of cases.
There have been several comments so far about higher prices reducing the
availability of older computers/radios/etc. As a point of discussion,
what can be done about it? If the intent is to work on and find out how
things work, I don't see *any* difference between an existing older
machine, and a new one built from existing schematics. Yes, I do
realize that some of the electronics are unavailable easily anymore.