1 Mar
1999
1 Mar
'99
8:21 a.m.
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Marvin wrote:
I guess were just hopeless romantics then. I want to see the stuff become
available to those who would appreciate it, and not just come up for sale
because "Hey, I can make a $1000 on this old computer". Its the rape and
pillage of this once serene hobby of collecting retired computers and
bringing some life back into them for fun that I don't care for.
I never got into this for the money.
That's
what Doug is talking about. Its a double egded sword really.
And the other side of that sword is that without awareness, stuff gets
thrown away. Someone would have to have their intelligence turned off at the
moment to think that the pricing that some items have received on ebay has
not encouraged other similar stuff to be posted for sale. FWIW, the charter of this list would not ban ebay (or
any other classic
computer) related issues, and any attempts to discourage that type of
listing (including usenet postings) are off topic.
I'm off-topic! You're off-topic!! This whole mailing list is
off-topic!!! ;)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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