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From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org>
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Subject: Re: Just wondering...
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:59:31 -0400
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On 6/16/25 21:58, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On 6/10/25 09:41, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On 6/5/25 06:06, John wrote:
>>> Ah yes, the 'collectors' who are not 'enthusiasts' or 'hobbyists'.
>>> Somewhere they heard these things are valuable so they want to cash-in.
>>> No concern for preserving history.  Makes my stomach turn.
>>
>>    "Wurfers". (google it)  We at LSSM get hit with those guys all the 
>> time.
>>
>>    Just last week we got this: "I gots this HUGE antique computer, one 
>> of the VERY FIRST computers, I want $5K for it!"  (and the pic shows a 
>> trash-picked Dell Pentium4 machine complete with bird poop on top)
> 
> Honestly, you couldn't make this stuff up...  Most of us in the 
> community have seen it all by now.

   I tell ya Steve, the gene pool needs some chlorine.  Desperately.

   Good to see you here, BTW.

           -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, President/Curator
Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA