Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:41:07 +0000 From: Captain Nemo Subject: Re: Just wondering... Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:41:07 +0000 Lines: 11 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-h0PzHMFMNlAivdqLl8k6kYcIz4wtspwGQ5DVOYuz+AOSX+ybx7P3FAil+GmHRH2Erz1nc1C4POpyUl1!i+zRWfCQajc3zR1cQzRXkH6v2sVIrWiESEPeM/U1I/q+XM/ca29A/o8NACmhDv/ogA1nLOdc X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.cpm:14475 On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 05:06:56 -0500, 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. At least they are keeping them out of the dumps or recyclers. There was a time when Goodwill recycled anything that had a CRT - including rare, vintage computers. They seem to have been educated about that and don't just trash them.