13 Dec
1998
13 Dec
'98
9:57 a.m.
In a message dated 12/13/98 3:05:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, yowza(a)yowza.com
writes:
Tell us, and let us chuckle now. 8080's are
available from any surplus
electronics shop in quantity. I sold one of my 8008's on ebay a while
back "the CPU used in the Scelbi and Mark-8, before the Altair!" and got
$15 for it. The chip collector niche is *much* smaller than even the tiny
computer collector niche.
Did you advertise under the keyword "Gold". I think this is the key to
selling
old chips. I agree that the chip collector niche is small. However there are
many more people that collect beautiful Gold objects. This is my target
market.
Scrap value of your 8008 is less than 25 cents. At $15 you did very well. I
plan on starting with my gold 8080s and EPROM's, not the most collectable
stuff. My main interest is in doing better than scrap value. I agree these
chips are available in every scrapyard. These came out of mine. Computer
collectors know this, gold collectors don't. Researching your market
important.
Keywords are everything. I noticed that even you got 'Altair' in the title box
of the 8008.
Paxton
13 Dec
13 Dec
10:18 a.m.
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 Innfogra(a)aol.com wrote:
Did you advertise under the keyword "Gold".
I think this is the key to
selling old chips. I agree that the chip collector niche is small.
However there are many more people that collect beautiful Gold objects.
This is my target market.
You mean you're going after the jewelry crowd? That should be
interesting. If I start seeing old women with big hair wearing 4004's
around their neck, I'll be happy being able to say "I knew Paxton when he
started this trend."
Keywords are everything. I noticed that even you got
'Altair' in the
title box of the 8008.
Yes, and I did it without making any false claims, and included
information about the chips including their source and date codes to
ensure there was no misleading information. So, it should be clear that
I've got nothing against "keywords", but there's a HUGE difference
between
getting keywords into a description and being misleading once somebody
actually reads the description.
-- Doug
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3:15 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
There is only one place where an 8008 should end up.
In a circuit that
needs one. Like the frontpanel controller of my 11/34. Like the control
logic board of my Beehive. Like a Scelbi. Or a dozen more machines.
Ah, the Beehive. I gave Sam a cool one from 1974 or so with a huge
detachable keyboard and joystick. I love their logo, but I'm not sure I
get it: a bee in diapers? The bee and beehive are associated with Utah,
the Beehive State, but why diapers?
-- Doug
3:59 p.m.
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
Ah, the Beehive. I gave Sam a cool one from 1974 or
so with a huge
detachable keyboard and joystick. I love their logo, but I'm not sure I
get it: a bee in diapers? The bee and beehive are associated with Utah,
the Beehive State, but why diapers?
I seem to remember that costing me $10 so "gave" is inaccurate :)
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4:27 p.m.
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Sorry, I'm getting used to ClintonSpeak. Define "gave." I was truthful
in saying I gave it you. If you feel that I mislead the public by
neglecting to mention what you gave me in turn, then go ahead and impeach
me :-)
-- Doug
Ah, the
Beehive. I gave Sam a cool one from 1974 or so with a huge
detachable keyboard and joystick. I love their logo, but I'm not sure I
get it: a bee in diapers? The bee and beehive are associated with Utah,
the Beehive State, but why diapers?
I seem to remember that costing me $10 so "gave" is inaccurate :)
4:48 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Sorry, I'm getting used to ClintonSpeak. Define "gave." I was truthful
in saying I gave it you. If you feel that I mislead the public by
neglecting to mention what you gave me in turn, then go ahead and impeach
me :-)
I'm looking at the manual for this thing. It was a pretty righteous
terminal in its day. Maximum transmission rate is 9600 baud. It had a
video out so you could hook up an external monitor. According to the
schematic, the biggest chip on the I/O board is a TR1402A or 1602A (it has
both numbers written on it). I have no idea what this is. But there's no
8008 in there. I think I checked it out when I first got it, and you
would've tried to get more than $10 out of me if it did I'm sure. ;)
The full name of the company that made this is Beehive Medical
Electronics. The terminal is called a MiniBee 4--mini my ass, this thing
is bigger than a TRS-80 Model III.
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Ah, the
Beehive. I gave Sam a cool one from 1974 or so with a huge
detachable keyboard and joystick. I love their logo, but I'm not sure I
get it: a bee in diapers? The bee and beehive are associated with Utah,
the Beehive State, but why diapers?
I seem to remember that costing me $10 so "gave" is inaccurate :)
14 Dec
14 Dec
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9:11 a.m.
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
The one I have is circa 1974.
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I'm
looking at the manual for this thing. It was a pretty righteous
terminal in its day. Maximum transmission rate is 9600 baud. It had a
video out so you could hook up an external monitor. According to the
schematic, the biggest chip on the I/O board is a TR1402A or 1602A (it has
both numbers written on it). I have no idea what this is. But there's no
8008 in there. I think I checked it out when I first got it, and you
would've tried to get more than $10 out of me if it did I'm sure. ;)
There are several terminals made by Beehive. Mine must be a later one -
it has an 8008 in it (I am not sure what the UART is), a separate
keyboard, but no joystick. Its main claim to fame is that it has a Hebrew
character set in it as well as the normal one.
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