On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Jeff Kaneko wrote:
> It's all a matter of goals and priorities. There are goals that will
> produce a productive outcome if reached, and there are some that will
> produce a bad outcome. This is a good hobby, because even schoolkids
> withoout alot of money can enjoy the 'rush' of putting an old system
> together and running it (something *I* couldn't do when I was a kid).
>
> But when it becomes a hobby for the rich, upper classes-- as many of the
> 'traditional' hobbies have become-- then something will be irrevocably
> lost. Hopefully, we are still a decade or so away from the complete
> commercialization of our hobby. I can't bear the though of the classic
> computer going the way of the baseball card, and the comic book . . .
We spoke on this topic last year, and I and a couple others prognosticated
that the then somehwat tame trend towards escalating prices for older
computers would reach the levels we are seeing today. It was just a
matter of how fast, and it basically came upon us as fast as I expected it
would. That's why I've been busy loading my garage up with stuff. I knew
well enough to get the goods while the getting's good. Once I've got some
spare time, I can sit back and enjoy tinkering with my (cheaply
accumulated) collection while the newly-interested collectors are
scratching and clawing for that latest "RARE TimexSinclair 1000!!!" on
eBay.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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