Bidding Against NASA

Good Morning, I think this may have come up some weeks back... But among 8-inch floppy drives and other unspecified items, NASA is buying up all the 8086 microprocessors they can lay their hands on, specifically, to keep the Space Shuttle flying. Not the more common 8088, of course, but its 16-bit big brother. Although as government agencies go, NASA doesn't have deep pockets, it certainly has deeper ones than I do. I should count my recent acquisition of the IBM 8 inch external floppy drive as a soon-to-be-rare occurance. Anyone else here ticked of that not only are they trying to keep that questionable pig flying, but they are doing it by reducing further the quantity of collectable stuff? Screw the boost in value... -dq -Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"] Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits