On 05/30/2018 02:38 PM, TeoZ wrote: > Or they now think everything that is worthless is worth massive > amounts of money.
It won't take long to dispel that and storage space (warehouse, not memory) is expensive. bill > > -----Original Message----- From: Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 2:15 PM > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: old DEC stuff > > > > On 05/30/2018 01:55 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: >> > From: Dominique Carlier >> >> > I just regret this incredible rise in prices for collector >> machines >> > that, not so long ago, were languishing in wet sheds >> >> Hey, look at the bright side: as a result, they are much less likely >> to be >> simply recycled as scrap. > > I see quite the opposite. After a while of sitting, taking up valuable > warehouse space with no one expressing interest in buying them > they are likely to be scrapped as valueless. >> >> I took great pleasure in telling one seller who'd pulled a board-set, >> and recycled the rest, that the part he'd recycled was worth a lot more >> than the part he'd saved. Hopefully that kind of news gets around. >> > > And the seller probably laughed it off and sent the next batch to the > scrap yard fondly remembering you as some nut. > > bill > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus >