21 Nov
2014
21 Nov
'14
8:35 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al
Kossow
Sent: 21 November 2014 16:30
To: cctech at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: mainframes and other stuff
On 11/21/14 7:21 AM, David Schmidt wrote:
And from my dealing with scrappers for decades, as Will said, they won't
waste their time with the small-time collectors that hang out here. If you
aren't talking thousands of dollars, and big lots, you don't play. Anything less
is chump change that they may put some flunky on trying to sell on eBay.
Witness what happened with Sellam's collection for the past two years. They
screwed around with it trying to find someone to buy the whole thing, spent
six months with truckloads at the DeAnza flea market, then dumped the rest.
What I'm seeing more of now is just collectors selling between each other,
with prices slowly ratcheting up on desirable pieces, and most of the rest
getting scrapped.
Any thing not collectable gets quickly binned. I am about to bin a set of IBM PC manuals
(not sure if they are XT or AT, possibly a mix) as no one has space for them...
Dave
if the scrapper teamed up with a curator, a lot
of money could be
made, and a lot of valuable stuff could be saved from actually being
scrapped.
Shame.