Re: ebay madness vulcan unit/docs/software $521 bucks?

[Doug_M <doug.mccomber@fakepart.gmail.com>]

Simon D. Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, mr. brad wrote:
> 
>> the prob with the guys on this newsgroup is we remember the days of univ and 
>> school auctions when apple ii's systerms...corvus networks or whatever were 
>> $5 to haul it away or in the dumpster they went...
> 
> Disposablity leads to collectibility, I think. A good portion of the
> collectibles market is concerned with items that were at one time so
> common that people had no qualms about dumping them, the result being that
> you end up with a relative scarcity of something that has a high profile
> in pop culture. If you look at cars, for example, people have been hanging
> on to their classics for years, but all the Pintos and Civics were driven
> to death and then scrapped. Now those "disposable" cars have become
> classics in their own right... 
> 
> Personally, I was never into computers "back in the day", so so my view on
> pricing is probably right in the middle... I'm not driven by nostalgia, as
> some rabid collectors seem to be, nor am I jaded into thinking Apple II
> gear is common as dirt (though, I think that attitude might have more to
> do with geography than anything)... I tend to bid on items based on what I
> think is a reasonable price to pay for how much use I expect to get out of
> the item. 
> -s
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Simon,

Noticed you were using CCN, me too. It's a great ISP for retro users.
Have you ever considered running a Linux box and connecting to it via
ProTERM and serial cable?  That way you'd get shell access without the
long distance. Might be considered cheating for the retrochallenge though.

Regards,
-- 
Doug McComber
http://www.VintageComputing.net/