A moment of silence, please

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Thu Aug 14 21:05:50 1997

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Tim Shoppa wrote:

> Oh - you never mentioned it was rather "common" consumer stuff at a
> flea market. My comments were more oriented towards dealing with

Yes.

> scrap dealers who have 1800-pound minis which will get junked unless
> I go out of my way to make it both convenient and pleasant to sell them
> to me. Believe me, most of these scrap dealers will melt a PDP-9
> down in an instant. By being excrutiatingly compliant with their
> particular needs, I can often get access to complete systems, before
> they begin hacking away at bus cables, ripping apart custom backplanes,
> and pulling the PC boards to be melted down for gold. If I haggled for
> just an instant, that PDP-9 would go on its way to the crusher. I'm talking
> about building up long-term relationships and preserving classic machines -
> not about saving a buck (or a quarter)!

I totally agree. And again, I was referring mainly to swap meets. You
don't generally build long term relationships at swap meets. The scrap
dealers are a much different story.

Sam
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