1 Jun
2005
1 Jun
'05
11:39 p.m.
Will someone please talk to this guy before he single-handedly renders
this hobby utterly ridiculous!?!?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5201588973&rd=1&…
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2 Jun
2 Jun
2:48 a.m.
Will someone please talk to this guy before he
single-handedly
renders this hobby utterly ridiculous!?!?
I've had several opportunities to pick up IBM card punches and tabulators
over the past couple decades. If I had bought even just one of them, the
storage, shipping, and crating expensives, not to mention all the effort
in doing those things, would have dwarfed the Ebay price that they're going
for today.
It's new owner is probably a better choice than sending it to the
smelter. (Which is probably where the ones I passed by went to!)
Tim.
5:20 a.m.
At 01:39 AM 6/2/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Will someone please talk to this guy before he
single-handedly renders
this hobby utterly ridiculous!?!?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5201588973&rd=1&…
Provenance, my boy! And it's nearly-working, if not working.
Why not yell about '6$', the other bidder who was ready to go
all the way to $888? A U of P shill? Why, there's two people
out there ready to ruin this hobby by making it financially interesting!
So what is the perfect price in Sellam's world?
- John
11:03 a.m.
Will someone please talk to this guy before he
single-handedly renders
this hobby utterly ridiculous!?!?
If you are referring to the buyer - well, not much can be done until the
burnout happens.
I have seen it with dozens of collectors in the old radio and computer
field - guys that buy up everything in site, then drop out, or reduce
their buying to zero (or a reasonable level). Very, very few people can
sustain collecting like this, even with an unlimitted checkbook.
It would be nice if he shared his collection. He has some nice things now.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
1:23 p.m.
WOW!!! Flashback attack! I used to run one of those in High School
(McKee on Staten Island) it used to be used for attendance tracking of
students, no one knew how it worked, I figured it out and used to work
in the office afterschool run all the attendance punchcards...
Man, looking back now, I could've made some serious $$$$ "fixing"
students attendance for them ;-)
I was more focused on running the beast and having fun with it, since I
was the only one who knew how to operate it, it was like having my own
personal (sorta) computer at the time ;-)
Curt
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Will someone please talk to this guy before he
single-handedly renders
this hobby utterly ridiculous!?!?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5201588973&rd=1&…
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