----- Original Message ----- <snip> ----- Reply: It's easy to judge and complain about "hoarders", but there's another perspective: Considering today's high shipping costs it's pretty hard to find anyone willing to pay to ship anything substantial (never mind a little extra to make it worth while) unless it's rare and/or valuable, so you either scrap it or "stack it in the storage shed" in hopes of some day finding someone local or willing to pay the big bucks. I've had to scrap close to a dozen Cromemco boxes and dozens of terminals and old PC/XT/ATs and clones over the years; fortunately I found a local teacher who took a skid full of old data books or they would have gone to landfill as well. Personally I'd love to regain the space that this junk takes up... mike