20 May
2017
20 May
'17
7:49 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Chiappa via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Cc: <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2017 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: KDF 8189 processor board foobared (ebay warning)
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Be kind!
Many years ago, before I discovered that people actually valued and collected this useless
junk I bought a Northstar-in-a-desk at auction, threw the innards in the trash and kept
the desk (now holding a stack of Cromemcos ;-).
m
From: Jim
Stephens
I just ran across a sale on epay by a guy who
thought you could pull
the processor chip off the board and sell each in separate auctions.
There are a lot of idiotz out there.
I ran into one who'd removed a group of boards from (probably) an -11/40, and
then scrapped away the rest of the machine (including an RK11-D backplane).
I took _great_ pleasure in informing him that the stuff he'd scrapped had
been worth several times what the boards he had 'saved' had been worth.
Noel