On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
> Indeed. Actually, I wish my favourite machines were a lot more common, so
> all of you could own one and enjoy it. I have (as I've said many times)
> little interest in the financial value of my collection.
Same here. If the machines that most of us collect were more common,
or were not being snapped up by storage-only collectors, we'd have
less trouble finding difficult to find components for our machines,
and more people could enjoy interesting computers.
I remember going to a hamfest a couple of years ago, and some
collector was walking up to table after table, quickly, and offering
cash for the entire lot, including things he didn't want. I'm talking
about tables with a half dozen of one kind of machine, etc. Another
collector at a hamfest was buying everything DEC to stuff into his
warehouse; he mentioned having a few thousand computers.
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