Re: cards cost

["Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.com>]

Posting on the newsgroup is great but the average person doesn't collect
vintage computers, nor do they frequent the newsgroups. Usually, they find
some old computer in the attic that they need to just get rid of, so they
either throw it away, or if we're fortunate, they sell it on ebay. If they
sell it on ebay, at least other people like us have a chance to buy it, and
we wouldn't if they tossed it out.

As for posting an item for trade or money on newsgroups, that's great if the
person just wants to get rid of a system but who on a newsgroup is going to
pay $3000 bucks for an altair, or $1500 for a SOL. It's possible but not
likely. I have several very nice, and complete vintage computer systems, and
you can bet that if I ever decide to sell them, they're going onto Ebay.

I'm a selective collector of vintage computers, and by selective I mean that
I collect systems that I want to learn about. Like my Apple IIe. I never
owned an Apple II system until a couple of months ago, and then the bug bit
me and I went into a frenzied collecting mode. I may have paid to much for
some items but I'm not sorry about it. I have a fantastic new toy to play
with and explore. I could spend as much on one fancy night out on the town,
as I spent on my entire Apple IIe, with every slot filled, 300+ program
disks, and a library of manuals. I even bought most of the stuff on Ebay,
and I had the entire system, as it is now, within the course of a month. I
couldn't have done that very easily on the newsgroups.

The hunt is fun but sometimes, I'm more interested in learning how to use a
system than I am in buying it at the cheapest price possible.

Ernest




Stingray wrote in message <38A0FBCF.8664FF2@webzone.net>...
>Paul Grammens wrote:
>
>> However, I don't know why you think the "average cost STARTS at 250
bucks"
>> for A2 boards. What A2 boards are you buying that cost that much? The
most
>> expensive board I've bought for my A2's is a Rev. C SCSI card, which cost
>> $60 including shipping. I just picked up a High Speed SCSI card along
with
>> the rest of a IIgs case for $5 at Goodwill. A month or two ago, it was a
>> Vulcan hard disk and card, and 1.5 meg RAM card with IIgs case, for the
same
>> $5.  True, if you want something rare and want it now, it might cost you.
>> Personally, I enjoy the thrill of the hunt.
>> -Paul
>
>Someone posted recently ( I think It was John Holmes - correct me if I'm
wrong,
>John) that the closest thing he's ever seen to a computer at a thrift store
was
>a broken typewriter. This has unfortunately been my experience for the most
>part as well, but I still go in and look when time allows. The main
advantage
>to ebay is that I can shop around there from home and I know I'll see Apple
>stuff, guaranteed. Granted, it will almost always go for too much, but I've
>gotten lucky there far more than a few times. The moral, I guess, is it
doesn't
>hurt to look. I have to agree with Pim in that it does burn me up when some
>doofus buys a 1mb Apple ram card for $75. All I can think is, "oh great,
prices
>are going up". Supply and demand donchaknow.
>
>I still prefer to do my trading the old fashioned way, by posting on the
>newsgroups, and Delphi, etc. It always seems more real to just email
someone a
>few times and work out a deal. Proxy bidding takes a lot of the fun out of
>trading. I, for one, have never listed anything for sale on ebay until I
have
>given up on finding any takers the "fun" way.
>
>Steve
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