Ebay Altair

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Wed May 10 01:14:18 2000

Gary Oliver wrote:
>
> <RANT>
> This is one area where I agree that eBay has made a frenzy of things.
> I doubt if more than a few percent of the core memories will ever
> find their way back into an operating system. In most cases, even
> if the memory planes are intact, they've been separated from their
> siblings and you'd never be able to reconnect the thousands of wires
> to reorganize the stack. I've been looking for some "intact" core
> stacks for years now and they're all showing up one plane at a time
> for at least $100 per trophy. And sellers are in no way interested

I am not sure what ebay you are looking at, but I just took a look at
completed "core memory" auctions and the prices seemed to be in the $40 -
$50 range. I sold some DataRam core plane modules that closed around $40 or
so untested. It was only a few months ago I talked to a person who was still
selling these core planes tested and working for $1000. I think the person
who is cutting up the core planes and selling sections could be best
described as sick ... almost as sick as the people who buy them and make it
worth someones time and money to cut these things apart.
Received on Wed May 10 2000 - 01:14:18 BST