10 May
2000
10 May
'00
1:14 a.m.
Gary Oliver wrote:
<RANT>
This is one area where I agree that eBay has made a frenzy of things.
I doubt if more than a few percent of the core memories will ever
find their way back into an operating system. In most cases, even
if the memory planes are intact, they've been separated from their
siblings and you'd never be able to reconnect the thousands of wires
to reorganize the stack. I've been looking for some "intact" core
stacks for years now and they're all showing up one plane at a time
for at least $100 per trophy. And sellers are in no way interested
I am not sure what ebay you are looking at, but I just took a look at
completed "core memory" auctions and the prices seemed to be in the $40 -
$50 range. I sold some DataRam core plane modules that closed around $40 or
so untested. It was only a few months ago I talked to a person who was still
selling these core planes tested and working for $1000. I think the person
who is cutting up the core planes and selling sections could be best
described as sick ... almost as sick as the people who buy them and make it
worth someones time and money to cut these things apart.