Fair software pricing

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Max Eskin wrote: What's with all these damn blank lines? I don't know. I can understand maybe games like Ultima that people played the hell out of when they were kids and wore the oxide off the diskette and the ink off the label, and wore the manual out and the box sat in the messy room and got beat up, eventually the whole thing being tossed once you grew out of it. I can see that being rare (but can't believe an offer I once saw on comp.sys.apple2.forsale from some guying willing to pay $300 for a copy). Xenix, on the other hand, I have a couple systems with it installed, and I believe a couple install packages somewhere in the collective mess. Its very much out there. These softwares are findable. All one has to do is look around in thrift stores and at swap meets. If you go regularly enough you will start to find this stuff (of course your area may vary widely, but you'd be surprised...you just gotta be willing to look harder and farther and in creative ways). Any serious computer collector is out searching about at least two Saturdays out of the month. The really successful (and lucky) ones are out at least every weekend. The deranged fanatics (like me) find time during the week as well (I average between 4-8 outings a month). Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever onward. September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details! [Last web page update: 05/11/98]