10 Sep
2011
10 Sep
'11
4:21 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Otter" <jonas at otter.se>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: printers was: DiscFerret disc analysers for sale!
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 21:03:24 +0100 (BST), ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony
Duell) wrote:
So we have to deal with the same problems that people who collect ancient
coins made of gold and silver deal with. If you want to collect them you
need to pay more then melt value. I suspect most Pentium Pros with the gold
top will be melted down, same with most 486 and very early Pentium 1's. I
would assume quite a few old computer relics were recycled back in the last
gold rush as well.
That/'s why, incidentally, in a couple of
days time I am demonstating a
printer that's almost 40 years old, taking it apart to show the
internals, nnd describing the intricacies of the control system (it's
beautiful, and to think the ROM is only 32 bytes long...)
Please tell us which one
:-)
You know full well that financial value is not a
reason for collecting
something.
Unfortunately that is not the case for those transatlantic gentlemen
who
spend their time on eBay buying "rare gold computer chips" for insane
amounts of money, driving up the prices for the rest of us :-(
/Jonas