Bidding Against NASA

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Mon May 13 12:03:24 2002

At 10:20 AM 5/13/02 -0400, you wrote:
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>> At 07:52 AM 5/13/02 -0400, Doug wrote:
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>The local Gannett-rag-that-used-to-be-a-Pulitzer-Prize-winning
>newspaper.


   That may explain it! Ever heard the saying "consider the source"? :-)


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>> >Anyone else here ticked of that not only are they
>> >trying to keep that questionable pig flying, but
>> >they are doing it by reducing further the quantity
>> >of collectable stuff? Screw the boost in value...
>>
>> 8086s collectable? Yeah right! Only if you believe the
>> rants of the E-bay sellers!
>
>I would say that if you had a Seattle Computer Products
>S-100 based CPU card, that you'd indeed have a collectable
>item. Worth megabucks, no. Collectable, yes. Why? It's
>probably not the best x86 CPU card for an S-100 frame, but
>it was the first to run Microsoft DOS (QDOS).
>
>So it should be at least as collectable as issues #2 & #3
>of Dr. Dobb's Journal, for example. If you don't think so
>and have one you'll send me for postage, the collection
>would be most grateful.


   At one time I did have the first three years of DDJ. I was a charter subscriber but to tell the truth I was never very impressed with it and I discontinued it and threw out the back issues a long time ago. If you'd been in the area about 6 months ago you would have had a good chance of grabbing the first three years of Byte and first two years of Kilobaud magazines that I pitched. (Easy come, easy go!)

   I also gave away a nearly complete set of HP Journals (only missing about 8 issues between 1954 to present). I do miss them.

    Joe
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Received on Mon May 13 2002 - 12:03:24 BST