21 Nov
2014
21 Nov
'14
8:52 a.m.
On 21 November 2014 08:29, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 11/21/14 7:21 AM, David Schmidt wrote:
Oh so that is what I was buying from at
De Anza? The huge trucks that
kept having surprisingly interesting good value vintage computers and
manuals. I was wondering how did those guys have mainly good stuff to
sell.
Regards,
Vlad.
if the scrapper teamed up with a curator, a lot of money could be made,
and a lot of valuable stuff could be saved
from actually being scrapped. Shame.
And from my dealing with scrappers for decades, as Will said, they won't
waste their time with the small-time collectors
that hang out here. If you aren't talking thousands of dollars, and big
lots, you don't play. Anything less is chump change
that they may put some flunky on trying to sell on eBay. Witness what
happened with Sellam's collection for the past two
years. They screwed around with it trying to find someone to buy the whole
thing, spent six months with truckloads at the
DeAnza flea market, then dumped the rest.
What I'm seeing more of now is just collectors selling between each other,
with prices slowly ratcheting up on desirable
pieces, and most of the rest getting scrapped.