A Great Find & A Defense of E-Bay

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Sat Jun 17 10:08:07 2000

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Gary Hildebrand wrote:

>
> I've heard that the C=64 is still very popular with the Geritol set (senior
> citizens). Many just don't want to spend the kind of bucks needed for a
> Winblows box.
>
> Don't know if the same is true for the TI99/4

I was in a small TI-club around 1992-1995. I was usually the
youngest person there (about 25, while everyone else was in their
50's and 60's). There were younger folks into the TI back then, but
it seemed like all of them were from Europe (Germany and Holland
mostly)

>. . . I remember years back
> there was a good sized following considering it was one of the first
> orphaned computers.

Actually there was a lot of third-party support for it, and there
was even a "clone" of sorts (the Myarc Geneve, which used an improved
video chip). I think the TI scene got real quiet after the last Fest West
in 99, Micropendium (the last major TI magazine) stopped publishing, etc.,
although users and support for the machines do exist.

> I've even got one of those in my closet, waiting for a
> cassette cable, or a new home for someone who really wants one.
>
The consoles were actually pretty common (TI was selling them for as
low as $50 during the 1983 shakeout). Other parts (disk drives, expansion
boxes, etc.) I don't really see as much anymore.

> As far as junk, they thought that of the Edsel, Desoto, Studebaker and
> Packard, when they were not that old. Given time, everything is worth more
> thn it is now. Gasoline seems to be a good example . . . .

Hmm...
Received on Sat Jun 17 2000 - 10:08:07 BST