E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Jul 3 20:33:28 1999

Nope . . . and I made a "high-tech tie-tack" out of my 8008. I just powered
the box down, pulled the processor out, removed the 8008, bent the pins
around so as not to damage a good silk bib, and super-glued the tack to the
back of it. . . That box, an NBI word processor, used those hard sectored
diskettes with the holes around the outside. EEEK!

regards,

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly


>At 05:15 PM 7/3/99 -0600, Dick wrote:
>>That's the price you pay, so to speak, for participating in a free-market
>>economy. The market determines what price the market will bear. If there
>>are more rich dummies (If that's how you prefer to think of them) than
there
>>are Altairs or 4004's then you'll probably never own one.
>>
>>Meanwhile, maybe I can get someone to slide me a few bucks for this old
>>stuff of mine . . .
>
> Sure I'll slip you a few bucks. Got any 4004s around? :-)
>
> Joe
>
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