21 Aug
1999
21 Aug
'99
5:31 a.m.
You can't have it both ways, fellows. If you don't want the "old" stuff
to
become plentiful in the sense that there are viable copies available which,
in a sense, water down the market, and hold down the prices, then eBay will
set the prices, and you know what that means.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard A. Cini <rcini(a)msn.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, August 21, 1999 5:06 AM
Subject: Re. imsai 2
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:20:14 -0700 (PDT), Sellam
Ismail
<dastar(a)ncal.verio.com> wrote
that computers
will become the next hot collectable. Someone
I think that it's a load of crap. Old
computers for the masses. Ruins
it
for the rest of us. Next thing you know, the
Antiques Road Show will have
an "antique computer" eposode.
Um, from
what I heard, someone on the Roadshow said within the last
year >locally here told me that (I didn't see
the show myself). So it's too
late
>for fear, move straight on ahead to loathing.
Aw, crap...there goes the neighborhood.
Rich
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