15 Dec
2001
15 Dec
'01
4:26 a.m.
I think the guy's providing a service, and that it's not about making money.
He's not likely to get rich, after all.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Battle" <frustum(a)pacbell.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: Arrrgh!! Piecemeal auction!
At 10:08 PM 12/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
People on here have talked about people on eBay
taking a perfectly good
working machine and selling it off piece by piece but this takes the
capacitor screwdriver, soldering iron and sucker....
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1309283581
This person? is selling 40 little plastic thingies that go under a key on
the Commodore 128's keyboard along with a spring!!!
Bryan
Excuse while I go bang my head against a wall... Did you know if you do that
for an hour you burn 150 calories?
oh, come on -- it isn't like the guy was unsoldering the TTL from an Apple
1 to sell as parts. If he is willing to put in the effort and ship 50
boxes to make $50, then he has a lot more time on his hands than I do.
So even if they came from a working machine, perhaps 5 people out there who
have a Commodore 128 sitting unused because it has a broken keycap can buy
a replacement part at a reasonable price, yielding a net increase in
working vintage machines.
Speaking as a person who has an organ donation card filled out, I just hope
that my logic applies only to computers and not to people who haven't yet
reached the end of the line.
I'd rather keep my organs for a while longer.
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