scrap yard inventory

From: Brian Knittel <brian_at_quarterbyte.com>
Date: Thu Jul 19 18:43:52 2001

Is there any progress on the stuff-for-sale website, Sellam?

I was just thinking: how about setting up a similar page for
where-stuff-can-be found? For example, I ran across an RH780
massbus controller today in a salvage shop today -- new in its
shipping box, the whole set of cards in a backplane. I don't
want it, and I don't think many of the subscribers of this list
would want to get a few dozen emails of this sort every day, but
it would be nice to be able to record the information.

I picture a website where you could enter items found in shops
as well as personal inventories of things we'd part with if
asked. Location, item, price if known, date spotted, etc; and a
way of checking it off: "gone", "I bought it", "it blew up",
etc. A sort of very narrow inventory system for the world's
scrap shops and basements.

Would this be useful, or would it just make it too easy for
dealers to vacuum up all the good stuff? Impossible to keep up-
to-date, or worth the occasional stale entry?

What do y'all think?

Brian
Received on Thu Jul 19 2001 - 18:43:52 BST