Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.xcski.com!news.neurotica.com!.POSTED.50.73.179.1!not-for-mail From: Dave McGuire Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: Just wondering... Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:59:31 -0400 Organization: LSSM Message-ID: <102shf3$jca$1@mail.neurotica.com> References: <18453d040a5eef02$10919$3915$22dd686e@news.thundernews.com> <184547367afeac23$122319$67230$2add606e@news.thundernews.com> <18456f19adf6c347$209698$54523$20dd6a6e@news.thundernews.com> <101n6ob$4d2m$1@dont-email.me> <18461d91ac43ac72$239788$3914$26dd6c6e@news.thundernews.com> <1029clf$1q6o$1@mail.neurotica.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:59:32 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mail.neurotica.com; posting-host="50.73.179.1"; logging-data="19850"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@mail.neurotica.com" User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: 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