14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
10:08 p.m.
Richard wrote:
In article <45F76433.87F015DD at cs.ubc.ca>,
Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> writes:
A then-vs-now value comparison was not intended, just a statement of the way
it happened.
It may be that there are more people in this hobby today, but I don't really
think the level of awareness or consideration of the hobby outside the hobby
is much different.
Given the same circumstances (source,location,appearance) for the one I found,
even today I expect it would still have ended up in the surplus/discard pile.
I picked a derelict/beat-up CT-64 out of the
surplus/discard pile about 10
years ago. Cleaned up and rewired it's in excellent condition.
Dude. 10 years ago I don't know if this "hobby" was on anyone's
radar. Did ebay even exist 10 years ago? At any rate, 10 years seems
like such a long time for this hobby that I don't know how you could
compare 10 years ago to now.