On Sun, 18 May 2003 loedman1_at_juno.com wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2003 Rich wrote:
> >> my collection at over $10,000, including my Kaypro 10 at $2,500, a PS2
> at
> >> $1,500 and a 9 pin Epson at $160. The current wife is an electrician
>
> To which Sellam added,
>
> >Don't you know you're only supposed to brag about what your collection
> is
> >worth to other geeks?
>
> And Rich responded,
> I know, but sometimes it is necessary to grossly inflate the value in
> order to be allowed to enter the house with the latest "find". Oh and the
> word she used was most definitely not "geek", but then again I suppose
> that I should not have called her the C word in open court, but the more
> chins than a Chinese phone book comment did make the judge laugh.
No, no, no. Wrong tactic. You must insist that you are saving the legacy
of computer history that will one day restart mankind after some
armegeddon wipes out most of our population and technology and we must
start over. Then you afford yourself a messianic stature.
Talking up its monetary value will, as you have so painfully learned, only
come back to bite you in the ass later.
;)
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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