Re: Who bought the Copy Master II Copy Card on ebay this week?

["N.N. Thayer" <nnthayer@hotmail.com>]

On Apr 28, 1:57 pm, heuser.mar...@freenet.de wrote:
> I'm sure that some parts are only bought _because_ of their
> price and will be stored to be merchandise again at some
> point. An investment - nothing more, nothing less.

I imagine that can end up working against them, since electronics
don't improve with disuse, and collector's value is affected by
whether the item is in working order.

> In consequence lots of these parts are lost to the community
> - sometimes forever. Nobody will scan the docs, make images
> from the disks, make photograph from the cards or even try
> to reverse-engineer the hardware to design a modern variant.

That's what I fear whenever I see a listing for a big batch of docs or
disks.  It makes me want to snap them up myself and process them
properly, but the closing prices often steer me away. :(