4 Jul
2005
4 Jul
'05
6:23 p.m.
In message <42C96493.1C70AEA5 at rain.org>
Marvin Johnston <marvin at rain.org> wrote:
I just sold an MPF-1 on VCM
(http://www.vintagecomputermarketplace.com/)
for $20.00. Sure, I could have probably gotten more for it on Ebay, but
why not list stuff *FIRST* on VCM with a reasonable price that sellers
can live with????? And once the ad copy and photo(s) are taken, it is
trivial to move the listing over to Ebay if it doesn't sell on VCM.
I actually saw that one first - then spotted the "SOLD" tag next to it. I
would have paid that in a heartbeat...
And I couldn't agree more with Joe's comments;
there is a LOT of stuff
out there for anyone who takes the time to develop a network and
sources. As one example, I would have never gotten the worlds largest
supply of existing Polymorphic software, documentations, equipment, etc.
without the network I have in place. Nor would I (in years past) have
aquired some 50 coinop arcade games at no charge (most are now gone.)
I've tried looking around here - talked to friends, mentioned a few of my
hobbies, and all I ended up with was 10 useless 486-class PCs. Someone
literally drove a pickup truck up to the garage door while I was out and
dumped the whole lot on the drive. Soaked, mangled and basically useless.
Very annoying, especially when I said "if it runs DOS or Windows, I'm not
interested, call me and ask first."
*sigh*
I did thank them for the gesture, found two working hard drives (the rest
were either gone or dead) and stole the SIMMs, but the machines ended up in
a skip.
Later.
--
Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB,
philpem at philpem.me.uk | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
... Get 'em by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow.