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Re: Just wondering...

Date 2025-06-16 21:58 -0400
Subject Re: Just wondering...
Newsgroups comp.os.cpm
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From Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>
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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.

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Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 08:31 -0500
  Re: Just wondering... Josef Möllers <josef@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-02 16:11 +0200
    Re: Just wondering... yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-06-02 15:13 +0042
    Re: Just wondering... pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2025-06-02 15:55 +0000
      Re: Just wondering... Josef Möllers <josef@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-03 23:12 +0200
        Re: Just wondering... pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2025-06-04 04:37 +0000
          Re: Just wondering... Josef Möllers <josef@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-04 11:33 +0200
            Re: Just wondering... jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2025-06-21 04:19 -0400
    Re: Just wondering... Fritz <freiwiederwind1@hotmail.de> - 2025-06-05 14:15 +0200
  Re: Just wondering... pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2025-06-02 15:54 +0000
    Re: Just wondering... Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2025-06-02 21:53 +0000
      Re: Just wondering... dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2025-06-10 18:24 +1000
      Re: Just wondering... Fritz <freiwiederwind1@hotmail.de> - 2025-06-10 10:40 +0200
        Re: Just wondering... Nick <here@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-06-12 20:55 +0100
        Re: Just wondering... jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2025-06-21 04:28 -0400
    Re: Just wondering... Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2025-06-03 11:52 -0400
  Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 11:38 -0500
    Re: Just wondering... Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-06-02 10:37 -0700
      Re: Just wondering... Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-06-02 10:38 -0700
        Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 15:25 -0500
        Re: Just wondering... drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2025-06-03 00:25 +0000
      Re: Just wondering... Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com> - 2025-06-02 19:14 -0400
        Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 23:20 -0500
        Re: Just wondering... Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2025-06-03 09:30 +0000
    Re: Just wondering... David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2025-06-02 14:02 -0500
      Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 15:28 -0500
    Re: Just wondering... Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2025-06-02 21:58 +0000
      Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 23:49 -0500
        Re: Just wondering... Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-06-03 09:09 -0700
          Re: Just wondering... Nick <here@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-06-04 23:33 +0100
          Re: Just wondering... Ed Batalha <edbatalha@yahoo.com> - 2025-06-04 23:45 +0100
          Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-05 05:03 -0500
          Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-05 05:06 -0500
            Re: Just wondering... Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2025-06-05 21:41 +0000
            Re: Just wondering... Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2025-06-10 09:41 -0400
              Re: Just wondering... Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2025-06-16 21:58 -0400
                Re: Just wondering... Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2025-06-17 15:59 -0400
                Re: Just wondering... Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2025-06-24 16:57 -0400
          Re: Just wondering... Nils M Holm <nmh@sraddha.invalid> - 2025-06-05 12:02 +0000
  Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-04 07:26 -0500
    Re: Just wondering... cruff@ruffspot.net (Craig Ruff) - 2025-06-05 00:25 +0000
      Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-05 05:09 -0500
  Re: Just wondering... Nick <here@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-06-04 23:45 +0100
    Re: Just wondering... David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2025-06-04 18:11 -0500
  Re: Just wondering... Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2025-06-16 21:54 -0400
    Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-17 08:29 -0500
      Re: Just wondering... ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2025-07-18 21:50 -0500
        Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-07-19 01:40 -0500
          Re: Just wondering... "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-07-19 10:33 +0100
          Re: Just wondering... dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2025-07-20 12:00 +1000
          Re: Just wondering... Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2025-07-19 23:00 -0400

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