14 Jan
1998
14 Jan
'98
5:07 p.m.
Well let me tell you a good/disgusting one: I spent 4 full days going from
junck store to junk store trying to find Classics. All 30 or so stores
visited told me the same story:
We do not keep them! We throw them out as soon as they come in! There is no
market for that kind of stuff.
I only found two classic in my search: the PPC512 through a coworker of my
brother in law and an Exelvision EXL100 at an Apple dealer (the guy was
stunned to have somebody come in and ask for classics, then remembered that
he had one in the warehouse from 10 years ago and had kindof forgot about
it). The only other on that I've seen was an atari 600XL at an outdoor
junkyard it had about an inch of dust on top of it and when I picked it up
some water poured out of it.
So I guess that the price I paid is only because the guy was happy to even
get money for it.
Oh yeah I also met a collector over there he had a used computer sotre
(PeeCee stuff) and he said they are hard to find but he knew a few places.
He never told me where.
If you are looking for french machine you'll have to go to the dumpsters or
knock on doors in order to find anything.
Yes, but they aren't so _rare_ in France. Price
and scarcity factors
apply.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
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14 Jan
14 Jan
5:07 p.m.
Well let me tell you a good/disgusting one: I spent 4
full days going from
junck store to junk store trying to find Classics. All 30 or so stores
visited told me the same story:
We do not keep them! We throw them out as soon as they come in! There is no
market for that kind of stuff.
Well, in that case, what I would do(if I had the
money, which I don't) is
go around and make deals with the stores to buy that old equipment from
them when it comes in... Then you can fix them up, keep what you like and
sell the rest to people that actually like the older systems.
-JR http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/1681/
15 Jan
15 Jan
5:58 a.m.
At 08:07 PM 1/14/98 -0800, you wrote:
Why don't you just leave your phone number with them and ask them to
call you when that stuff comes in. Tell them that you'll take it instead of
them filling up their trash with it. I'll bet they'll do it.
Joe
Well let me
tell you a good/disgusting one: I spent 4 full days going from
junck store to junk store trying to find Classics. All 30 or so stores
visited told me the same story:
We do not keep them! We throw them out as soon as they come in! There is no
market for that kind of stuff.
Well, in that case, what I would do(if I had the
money, which I don't) is go around and make deals with the stores to buy that
old equipment from
them when it comes in... Then you can fix them up, keep what you like and
sell the rest to people that actually like the older systems.
-JR http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/1681/
14 Jan
14 Jan
5:24 p.m.
Francois Auradon wrote:
If you are looking for french machine you'll have
to go to the dumpsters or
knock on doors in order to find anything.
Jeez, and the French will store vinegar for 200 years on the slim
chance it might still be wine. (And stupid Americans will pay high
prices for it -- the French won't touch the stuff, they know the
chances!). Properly bottled brandy, yes. Wine, no way.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Yes, but they aren't so _rare_ in France.
Price and scarcity factors
apply. 
7:08 p.m.
;-) Ward Donald Griffiths III head-scratched, yawned, then typed:
Jeez, and the French will store vinegar for 200 years
on the slim
chance it might still be wine. (And stupid Americans will pay high
prices for it -- the French won't touch the stuff, they know the
chances!). Properly bottled brandy, yes. Wine, no way.
Uh, for the record I usually fall under that "stupid American" moniker, but
in this case I do have to admit that a fine French wine turned to vinegar
makes some of the best cooking vinegar in the world!
Any French[wo]men out there wanna send me a coupla jugs for free, I'll take
'em!
;-)
Oh, and I'll take any computers, too (just to keep the thread on track!)
See ya,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed,
Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not*
zmerch(a)northernway.net | be your first career choice.
7:17 p.m.
Francois Auradon wrote:
If you are looking for french machine you'll have
to go to the dumpsters or
knock on doors in order to find anything.
My experience living in Grenoble, France is quite different. Over the
past 9 months I have collected quite a respectable collection of
micro-computers mostly picked up for the normal FF 100 (~$20) at the
local flea markets. I also regularly visit the "Cash Converter" type
store who sometimes have interesting offerings at not unreasonable
prices. (e.g found an ATMOS for FF 150 and an Exelvision ExTel for
FF200).
Of course I go green with envy when I hear of the low prices of systems
in the US. The last but one time I visited I came back with 2 suitcases
crammed with goodies collected on a weekend scrounge around Silicon
Valley guided by Sam Ismail.
If anyone is interested in the older European computers, I regularly see
and pass by Amstrad machines. I would be happy to pick them up and pass
them on as long as I'm not out of pocket.
Shipping is always an issue, but if folks are willing to wait, I usually
get tot he states once or twice a year and can, and have, brought
systems over for "free" - just the cost of UPS shipping within the
States.
--
Hans B. Pufal : <mailto:hansp@digiweb.com>
Comprehensive Computer Catalogue : <http://www.digiweb.com/~hansp/ccc/>
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