Finding Vintage Computers - A Primer - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 May 2000

In a message dated 5/15/00 5:49:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, foo(a)siconic.com 
writes:

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  On Mon, 15 May 2000, Tom Owad wrote:

  Let Them
Come to You

One way to find vintage computers is to let them find you.  
Try placing an ad in the classifieds section of your local 
paper.  Be sure to specify exactly what you are looking for 
to avoid getting a flood of false leads.  In the very least, 
include a cut-off year indicating you are not interested in 
any computers manufactured after that year.  
 Anybody try this?  What kind of response did you get?   
  Not a newspaper ad, but posting a Usenet ad was quite possibly the best
  thing I could've ever done.  I posted several ads in the local for sale
  newsgroups periodically over the course of several months and turned up
  all sorts of good stuff.

what is an example of the usenet ad you post?
i'm wondering how good an ad will work around here, however. someone posted 
on a local usenet group here asking for a C64. I eventually traded him one 
for a scsi drive for my PS/2 server. he said he had gotten some offers from 
people offering to sell their C64s, but they wanted $40 and insanely high 
prices. must have been ebay users.  8-< 

DB Young         ICQ:  29427634

hurry, hurry, step right up!  see the computers you used as a kid! 
http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/museum.htm