On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > I'd buy the core at $100, since that way you do have the working 8K for
> > your PDP. Then I'd try to mend the broken core plane that you already
> > have. If you fail, well you still have a machine with 8K in it (you'd be
> > kicking yourself, I think if you couldn't fix the old core and couldn't
> > still get a replacement).
>
> It seems the prudent thing to do, I was mostly just writhing about having
> to pay double of what _I_ think it's worth. I was polling for a sanity
> check to see if my expectations were unreasonable, or if the expectations
> of those stick-it-on-a-bookshelf collectors were.
I don't see what the big attraction to a core plane is. You stick it on
your wall. Whoopee! Look at me, I have a core plane on my wall. Big
fricken deal. Nobody even knows what it is anyway. From afar it looks
like a black square. Closer up it looks like a piece of a window screen.
Unfortunately, my rant is not going to stop the lame-o's selling it from
hyping it up as some cool collectable, and it's not going to stop the
techno-wannabees from buying it to stick on their wall.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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Received on Mon Apr 19 1999 - 17:27:29 BST