Re: Just wondering...

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.

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   "Wurfers". (google it)  We at LSSM get hit with those guys all the time.
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   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
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Dave McGuire, President/Curator
Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA