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

["sfahey" <sfahey@a2central.com.remove-6sz-this>]

  To: Warren Ernst
On 4/28/08 12:39 PM, in article
22bd2b28-167c-4f77-b260-3a8c8ce28297@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com, "Warren
Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com> wrote:

> It surprises me because I bought that card new in 198something, and
> was never wildly impressed with it. It required software to be loaded
> into it before doing anything, and if a user should happen to press
> the button without pre-loading any software, it would freeze the
> machine, locking it up tight.

Yah, no disagreement there. I think these are popular because of the hacker
culture they represented. Why else would people slap down top dollar for
things like this... or an AppleCat.

How many people are using their AppleCats to dial-up anything, let alone
war-dial, phreak or whatever. Even fewer than those that were using it for a
RTC, serial port or an X-10 controller. Zero probably.

Nostalgia (which I too suffer from) or obsessive collecting, ie Pokemon
Syndrome - gotta catch 'em all.
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