14 Jun
2013
14 Jun
'13
5:32 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:32:25 -0700
From: "Rick Bensene" <rickb at bensene.com>
This same person is selling the guts from a Sharp COMPET 361 calculator.
What's so special about this? Besides the K@@L NIXIE tubes, this model
featured CORE memory.
"...sold as is but carefully taken out..."
I say people suck++
Arggghhh! This is total sacrilege to an old calculator enthusiast such as
myself.
It hurts to see a machine like this gutted out and sold as a trinket. It
hurts even more because the Compet 361 is a machine I've been looking to
find for the museum for a very long time.
I agree...many people do suck!
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com
--------- Reply: ---------
--- My query to the seller:
Dear nancytemple202020,
May I ask what happened to the rest of this calculator? Are any other parts
still available as well?
--- Her reply:
I wish there was I would have sold it whole it was sitting for so many year
rust got to alot of it and it was the only board that was very nice and
clean.
- nancytemple202020
So, does she deserve to be insulted for not realizing that a nasty, rusty
piece of junk is worth more to some people than the only nice and clean
board out of it, or should we be grateful that she at least saved that board
and made it available?
S**t happens, life is full of disappointments and people don't always do
what we want them to; get used to it!
Sheesh!
14 Jun
14 Jun
4:54 p.m.
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, MikeS wrote:
----- Original Message -----
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:32:25 -0700
From: "Rick Bensene" <rickb at bensene.com>
I'd argue she doesn't. I'm going to assume she's not a calculator
collector and looked at it more like antique china or furniture. That
would explain what she did.
This same person is selling the guts from a Sharp COMPET 361 calculator.
What's so special about this? Besides the K@@L NIXIE tubes, this model
featured CORE memory.
"...sold as is but carefully taken out..."
I say people suck++
Arggghhh! This is total sacrilege to an old calculator enthusiast such as
myself.
It hurts to see a machine like this gutted out and sold as a trinket. It
hurts even more because the Compet 361 is a machine I've been looking to
find for the museum for a very long time.
I agree...many people do suck!
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com
--------- Reply: ---------
--- My query to the seller:
Dear nancytemple202020,
May I ask what happened to the rest of this calculator? Are any other parts
still available as well?
--- Her reply:
I wish there was I would have sold it whole it was sitting for so many year
rust got to alot of it and it was the only board that was very nice and
clean.
- nancytemple202020
So, does she deserve to be insulted for not realizing that a nasty, rusty
piece of junk is worth more to some people than the only nice and clean
board out of it, or should we be grateful that she at least saved that board
and made it available?
S**t happens, life is full of disappointments and people don't always do
what we want them to; get used to it!
Sheesh!
--
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
6:09 p.m.
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, MikeS wrote:
At the same time, it really is the responsibility of the seller to
research something to see if it has value even in a distressed condition
before scrapping it, and if necessary, find someone knowledgeable in a
particular field who can help them properly evaluate it.
You wouldn't scrap an antique car and attempt to sell just the floor mats
and seats just because of some body rust and a non-functional engine. You
wouldn't sell the light bulbs and shelf pegs out of a lighted china
cabinet because of scratches or dings in the finish or a missing drawer
pull.
The outer chassis of my Commodore SuperPET is /very/ rusty, yet it can
still be cleaned up and repainted. It sat on the floor of the former
owner's garage for an unknown number of years before he put it out on the
curb (literally).
--- My query to the seller:
Dear nancytemple202020,
May I ask what happened to the rest of this calculator? Are any other parts
still available as well?
--- Her reply:
I wish there was I would have sold it whole it was sitting for so many year
rust got to alot of it and it was the only board that was very nice and
clean.
- nancytemple202020
So, does she deserve to be insulted for not realizing that a nasty,
rusty piece of junk is worth more to some people than the only nice and
clean board out of it, or should we be grateful that she at least saved
that board and made it available?
I'd argue she doesn't. I'm going to assume she's not a calculator
collector and looked at it more like antique china or furniture. That
would explain what she did. 
16 Jun
16 Jun
12:10 p.m.
At 05:09 PM 6/14/2013, Tothwolf wrote:
You wouldn't scrap an antique car and attempt to
sell just the floor mats and seats just because of some body rust and a non-functional
engine. You wouldn't sell the light bulbs and shelf pegs out of a lighted china
cabinet because of scratches or dings in the finish or a missing drawer pull.
If it's difficult to ship the larger item, and easy to disassemble,
and there's a market for the parts, and it's easier to ship the parts,
and you have too much time on your hands and don't value your time,
then why not part it out? You can tell someone you got a sum total
of $300 for all the pieces when they assured you you'd only get $100
for the original.
To look at it another way, if there are fewer people with whole antique
cars and more people with partial cars, or people who like to put a few car
pieces on the wall, then there's a bigger market for car parts than
whole cars.
- John
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