At 7:52 AM -0800 12/25/06, Al Kossow wrote:
I guess you
should hold off on buying his PDP8 stuff
Between what Eric Smith, CHM and others have I don't think I need
any of his PDP-8 stuff. The Royotron stuff is much more rare since
the punch is used in DEC reader/punches but the info in them isn't
in the DEC service docs.
I normally don't say anything about getting stuff run up on me, but
paying $150+ to have the seller turn around and try selling scans for
$10 was depressing (only good thing is he claims 200dpi, which
won't be all that great).
Something else to think about is that he can claim copywrite on the
compilation of those scans, thereby preventing you from posting *HIS*
scans, so just do yours at a higher resolution :^)
Somehow this guy reminds me of a lot of people selling Genealogy
CD's. The library has thousands of them (it's a lot more than just
computer history), and I was horrified to learn that a lot are only
one book (PDF) per CD.
Zane
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