Ebay reaches new low

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Tue Nov 9 17:32:36 1999

Rumor has it that CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com may have mentioned these words:
>>He's been doing this with various pieces of equipment (and I do mean
"pieces")
>>for a while now. I'm not sure, but I think he may be the same guy who was
>>selling stuff like System/360 control panels, etc, saying "man, you
should have
>>seen the rest of the machine before I scrapped it..".
>
>How is this any worse than many institutional and club computer museums,
>as well as individual collector's collections, which have a
>CPU but not the disk/tape drives and operating system? I agree, it's a
>shame, and in the perfect world there'd be a way to run old systems
>forever, but evidently folks' priorities aren't geared to keeping complete
>systems.
Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 17:32:36 GMT