Thrift shop rants and revels

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Thu May 20 00:42:47 1999

Today was a bloody day of thrift shopping. Literally, I stuck my hand too
carelessly into a bin and something poked me between the thumb and
thumbnail. Worse, the results of an hour and a half of digging in crud was
just an old intellivision game and a dozen cartridges. When it arrived it
must have been in nice shape, all the cartridges in the original boxes, but
the earlier diggers always dump the contents of every box they find so it
took all that time to find the bits and pieces as best I could. Even worse
in the end I walked out and left it unwilling to pay the cashiers price of
$10.

A later stop wasn't any more fun, with prices I was just barely willing to
pay. I do have a six inch stack of Cromemco software sitting on my desk
though. Unfortunately it looks like I don't have more than about half of
three different releases of Unix System V, but I do have half a dozen
different utilities etc. Kind of sickening to think some people are out
there erasing the disks I don't have to use for some DOS something. Gotta
wonder where the Cromemco might be too.
Received on Thu May 20 1999 - 00:42:47 BST