24 Jul
2001
24 Jul
'01
10:01 a.m.
On 24-Jul-2001 Claude.W wrote:
Hi all
I am not a very "public" person but I could not turn this one down...
An offer for an interview with a big Montreal newspaper...
Which paper? I'd
like to grab a copy when it's published.
Lets see if this will bring in some rare finds/offers
or just emails
from people with 286s and XTs that will be asking $50 for them...
A local school is selling off all it's 486s for 200 CAD each. I scoff!
People seem to expect an inordinate amount for old computers. Using
Moore's metric, a computer's price is halved every 1.5 years. So that
pentium 100Mhz laptop you paid 3000 for 6 years ago is now worth 750 or so
NOT 1500. *sigh* Heck, I could get a 1ghz celeron desktop for that much!
Rant rant rant rant.
By the way, I still have the tape of CBCs
Undercurrents and their report
on vintage computer collecting and hope to find a card to capture this
and transfer it to .avi or similar and let you all have a chance at
seeing this report...If anyone has a ATI capture card or similar I am
open to offers.....I have an old Spigot card here for NUbus MAcs but
doubt that will produce anything pleasant...
I have a friend who was very much into ATI capture cards. Dunno if he's
got a working one to give away, though. I'll ask next time I see him.
-Philip