pdp8/f (now Amiga poster)

Poor John... I was to be the recipient of one of those manuals, gratis. But $163 was a little over my budget (cough). As someone who really enjoys SGI hardware (and looks forward to it becoming "obsolete - <rubs hands>), I was heartbroken to have it go on eBay. But they were John's books, and bully for him that he got $163. I just tell myself that he needed the $163 more than I needed that book and everything's ok. I'd feel bad if he'd given it to me and I later found out he could have sold it for that much... Personally, I try to make sure that old/rare stuff ends up with someone who is the previously discussed "enthusiast" type. Example: John Lawson gave me a nifty SparcServer 600MP board a while back that he had no interest in. I had a real interest in it, but no suitable VME chassis (I didn't want to stress the 4/110) and I posted a tentative "available" on a Sun newsgroup. I was shocked! Someone offered me $300 for it! I checked the email address, went to the website...price-gouging reseller. Ugh. So I gave it to a guy who had a full server chassis *shrink-wrapped* on the pallet in his garage... Ah well, Aaron On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Peter Pachla wrote: