19 Nov
2001
19 Nov
'01
7:58 p.m.
I can't believe that any nerd on this mailing list
would
denigrate a chip collector.
Sorta "like the pot calling the kettle black" as Grandma would say.
John Foust wrote:
At 09:17 PM 11/18/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Better yet, give me all those old
"worthless" purple C8080A's you have
laying around. I'll give you
$1 ea. for them so you won't feel like you're taking advantage of an
"idiot".
No, these complainers about the free market's prices
are just sad that their warehouse is full of junk that
doesn't fetch high prices.
I can't believe that any nerd on this mailing list would
denigrate a chip collector. It's like the original Swiftian
little-endian versus big-endian argument. But then again,
maybe I think this way only because if I'm going to junk
a piece of unusable computer equipment, or if I discover
an unrecoverable wreck, I'll always yank the interesting chips.
On the other hand, wearing a name tag that says "John Galt"
in a room full of techies is an unpardonably cheesy offense.
- John