old DEC stuff

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 05/30/2018 01:55 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>      > From: Dominique Carlier
>
>      > I just regret this incredible rise in prices for collector machines
>      > that, not so long ago, were languishing in wet sheds
>
> Hey, look at the bright side: as a result, they are much less likely to be
> simply recycled as scrap.

I see quite the opposite.  After a while of sitting, taking up valuable
warehouse space with  no one expressing interest in buying them
they are likely to be scrapped as valueless.
>
> I took great pleasure in telling one seller who'd pulled a board-set,
> and recycled the rest, that the part he'd recycled was worth a lot more
> than the part he'd saved. Hopefully that kind of news gets around.
>

And the seller probably laughed it off and sent the next batch to the
scrap yard fondly remembering you as some nut.

bill