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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:38:36 -0800
From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
<rant>
To let people know..
I have been buying these, scanning them, and putting them on bitsavers
and have had the same dick running them up to $20-$25 each time in the last second.
If I DON'T do this, they will disappear in that black hole of the "mainframe
collector"
I don't know who this prick is, but I'm getting REALLY sick of this.
</rant>
If this is the same guy who was doing this on ebay years ago... didn't
he have an ID something like sndshq (or some approximately similar
combination)?
I see to recall deliberately putting a 'teaser' item on ebay, and
needless to say he was all over me like a rash with questions... IIRC
he was from somewhere up north east... maybe New Hampshire?
I have a hole, but it's utterly non-black. CHM have some clout; do you
think there's any mileage in you trying to get IBM to re-open their
archives. ISTR ?Jay Maynard? telling me years ago that they used to be
open and helpful, then about ten years ago got locked down tight due
to lawyer-driven BS.
(that's getting so common now I think it needs an acronym of its own... LDBS?)
(oh and the entire Corestore collection is now in New Zealand, for
those who don't know! Film at 11 :-)
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
'No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother.
Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame.
For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'