13 May
2002
13 May
'02
2:20 a.m.
At 07:52 AM 5/13/02 -0400, Doug wrote:
The local Gannett-rag-that-used-to-be-a-Pulitzer-Prize-winning
newspaper.
Good Morning,
I think this may have come up some weeks back...
Where did you hear this? I deal with NASA frequently (as
recently as last Wednesday) and I've nver heard remotely like
this. I did supply two boxs of 8" floppy disks to NASA a
couple of months ago but that was all thye wanted. I could
supplied close to 100 boxs of new disks but they only wanted
two boxs in order to keep one system running. That certainly
doesn't qualify as "buying up all they can lay their hands on". Anyone else
here ticked of that not only are they
trying to keep that questionable pig flying, but
they are doing it by reducing further the quantity
of collectable stuff? Screw the boost in value...
8086s collectable? Yeah right! Only if you believe the
rants of the E-bay sellers! 
13 May
13 May
5:03 a.m.
At 10:20 AM 5/13/02 -0400, you wrote:
That may explain it! Ever heard the saying "consider the source"? :-)
I would say that if you had a Seattle Computer Products
S-100 based CPU card, that you'd indeed have a collectable
item. Worth megabucks, no. Collectable, yes. Why? It's
probably not the best x86 CPU card for an S-100 frame, but
it was the first to run Microsoft DOS (QDOS).
So it should be at least as collectable as issues #2 & #3
of Dr. Dobb's Journal, for example. If you don't think so
and have one you'll send me for postage, the collection
would be most grateful.
At one time I did have the first three years of DDJ. I was a charter subscriber but to
tell the truth I was never very impressed with it and I discontinued it and threw out the
back issues a long time ago. If you'd been in the area about 6 months ago you would
have had a good chance of grabbing the first three years of Byte and first two years of
Kilobaud magazines that I pitched. (Easy come, easy go!)
I also gave away a nearly complete set of HP Journals (only missing about 8 issues
between 1954 to present). I do miss them.
Joe
At 07:52 AM 5/13/02 -0400, Doug wrote:
The local Gannett-rag-that-used-to-be-a-Pulitzer-Prize-winning
newspaper. Anyone
else here ticked of that not only are they
trying to keep that questionable pig flying, but
they are doing it by reducing further the quantity
of collectable stuff? Screw the boost in value...
8086s collectable? Yeah right! Only if you believe the
rants of the E-bay sellers!
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