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| Alex Eisenhut:
I think the period from ~2000-2020 had a combination of willing sellers parting with interesting things and buyers who had enough money to buy them. So now the transfer of interesting things is basically finished. The people who had them 20 years ago sold them to the people that had the time and money to do so. Now you have hoarders like me who have their mountains of trinkets and baubles but little to no interest in selling, until I get old enough and then we repeat the cycle. |
| peter-h:
That is probably true for --- Quote ---Hoarder of 8-bit Commodore relics and 1960s Tektronix 500-series stuff. --- End quote --- :) I think what you may be finding is that people are no longer interested in filling their lives and houses with junk. But look at this https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2499334.m570.l1313&_nkw=tektronix+digital+oscilloscope&_sacat=182415 It is no different to say 5 years ago. I laugh when I think we paid 5k for a Le Croy 3034, it blew up after 1 year, fixed under warranty, but next time it blows up I will buy something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255986571937 (MSO2014) and laugh all the way to the bank. Or two of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334742106648 Lots of good stuff still on Ebay. |
| DiTBho:
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on July 29, 2023, 04:39:49 pm ---Now you have hoarders like me who have their mountains of trinkets and baubles but little to no interest in selling, until I get old enough and then we repeat the cycle. --- End quote --- I have two simple rules about my 2000s computer stuff * if there is no purpose/interest(1), sell it, take money to improve other things or other projects in the computer room * the computer room can be neither moved to a bigger room nor expanded, therefore having limited cubic meters, it must only host what there is real interest and purpose(1) measured in "months of inactivity". If it stays off for more than 10 months, there is no interest |
| DiTBho:
Once I happened to meet in person on eBay people like David Craig, a ritired Apple/m68k developer, and Dino Paparo, an Italian Amiga m68k/ppc603 developer. 70% of my Motorola books were bought from mr.Craig, as well as my books about PPC 4xx and 6xx were bought from mr Paparo ... I remember the pick up days, lovely chats with excellent wine ... ... now I only meet mediocre people; the other day I went in person to withdraw a 1984 water thermal bottle by Campagnolo, declared "NOS" (new old stock) ... it was an indecent stuff in which it seems the cat urinated, and a horrible salesman I met in New York two years ago whom I almost got into a physical fight with because as the batch of Microdrives he was selling me were not only obviously used but defective as well. He didn't expect me to bring me a Japanese PDA with CF2 interface and run badblocks... on a couple of random drives in the lot. So, even *the people* I deal with have gotten worse :-// |
| DiTBho:
--- Quote from: DiTBho on July 29, 2023, 07:52:23 pm ---I have two simple rules about my 2000s computer stuff --- End quote --- I have a second laboratory room where I keep all the electronic cards and paper books, basically MPUs and DSPs from the late 1980s and 1990s to the early 2000s. This room has similar rules to the computer room. The big different is that it has modern equipment. MSO, power supply, wave generator, LA ... all these things are not older than 2015, which are anyway subjected to the same rule: if not in use, they will go. |
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