On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> I'm often tempted to "jump" Sellam's arguments just because HE's the one who
> made them, but you have to allow for the fact that "where you sit determines
> what you see." He's in a different situation than most of us, and in fact
> I'm in a different situation than most of us as well. He wants to complete
> a really broad selection of classic computers and computer-related
> hardware/software. Some parts of what he wants are pretty rare, and for his
> purposes, he really MUST have them. Most of the rest of us are pretty
> narrow in our respective specialties. He's not.
>
> Now I can see how it p*sses him off when he sees THE one item he's needing
> to make a section of his collection work a certain way go for about $2k more
> than he's prepared to pay, particularly when he didn't buy it for $50
> because he thought that was a mite high.
Dick, please don't ever speak for me again. You have a great enough
problem trying to articulate your own point of view, the last thing we
need is for you to be speaking for others (especially when you are talking
out of your ass, as you seem to regularly do).
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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