24 May
2005
24 May
'05
4:37 p.m.
--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
I'm not sure who dkdkk (the buyer) is but
he/she's
probably here either
actively or lurking. At any rate, he/she buys a lot
of stuff through
eBay, and it is consistently what I would consider
"stupid money". I'm
sure they're happy with their purchases, especially
if money is no
object to them, but its really driving up the price
of stuff
unnecessarily.
In all fairness, the prices he pays are only
marginally more than the runner-up bidder, so he's not
the only one driving up the prices.
An acquaintance of mine knows 'dkdkk' through his
involvment with the old Computer Museum in Boston.
It's a reasonable conjecture that he might have an
interest in historical preservation and scholarship. I
wonder if someone like Al might want to contact him
and see if something might be arranged to get his
material scanned into the archives. A guy with
pockets that deep snapping up so much good material
would be an asset to the community if he could be
brought on board.
--Bill