Big newspaper interview for me! (lets see whats gonna happen

From: gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca <(gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca)>
Date: Tue Jul 24 17:01:49 2001

On 24-Jul-2001 Claude.W wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am not a very "public" person but I could not turn this one down...
>
> An offer for an interview with a big Montreal newspaper...
Which paper? I'd like to grab a copy when it's published.

> Lets see if this will bring in some rare finds/offers or just emails
> from people with 286s and XTs that will be asking $50 for them...

A local school is selling off all it's 486s for 200 CAD each. I scoff!
People seem to expect an inordinate amount for old computers. Using
Moore's metric, a computer's price is halved every 1.5 years. So that
pentium 100Mhz laptop you paid 3000 for 6 years ago is now worth 750 or so
NOT 1500. *sigh* Heck, I could get a 1ghz celeron desktop for that much!
 Rant rant rant rant.

> By the way, I still have the tape of CBCs Undercurrents and their report
> on vintage computer collecting and hope to find a card to capture this
> and transfer it to .avi or similar and let you all have a chance at
> seeing this report...If anyone has a ATI capture card or similar I am
> open to offers.....I have an old Spigot card here for NUbus MAcs but
> doubt that will produce anything pleasant...

I have a friend who was very much into ATI capture cards. Dunno if he's
got a working one to give away, though. I'll ask next time I see him.

-Philip
Received on Tue Jul 24 2001 - 17:01:49 BST