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Re: Where "Best" to look for & post "for sale" vintage Forth materials?

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 15:41:47 -0700 (PDT)
bruce.person@gmail.com wrote:

> Would like to poll/hear/read from those collectors of vintage Forth
> materials, where they go on the web to find items to buy? .
> [  ] eBay
> .
> [  ] Amazon
> .
> [  ] ??? where else?
> .
> .

I'm not a collector, but I doubt that there is a single good place
or even a few good places.  Like any collecting, you're going to
need to try everything and search everywhere.  Some of the people
who have what you want are probably very old and not online anymore
and may be living in retirement communities or retirement homes.  You're
probably going to have to try any place that allows stuff to be sold,
Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, Craigslist, Pinterest, Facebook, etc. After
that, you're probably going to have to try any Usenet Group or Google
Group, or forum or blog that allows people interested in Forth to
converse. You'll probably have to ask for what you want to jog people's
memory as their stuff is likely boxed up in a corner of the basement or
attic or storage, and you'll need make a decent offer if it's available
to get them to dig it out for you and ship it. You'll need to ask for
leads to people who might have what you want. Then, it's time to place
ads, scrounge garage sales, go to flea markets and ham fests or any
place computer nostalgia is sold, and then track down people who were
involved in the early communities who are still alive or their families.
Of course, libraries will have books, magazine articles, etc available
or preserved on microfilm, microfiche, dvds, etc.  Of course, you could
create your own event for collectors and spread the word far and wide
at least a few years in advance so that there are plenty of buyers and
sellers at your fair from around the world.  You need to do it in
advance to provide people with enough time to put it into their
schedule and enough time for the word to spread.  The internet is
immediate, but it can take years before things are indexed by search
engines and someone stumbles across it.  It would be best if you located
such an event in a historical location that had a large early Forth
community to play on the nostalgia.  You want to "go big" to pull in
everybody.

I hope those ideas help.


Rod Pemberton

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Where "Best" to look for & post "for sale" vintage Forth materials? bruce.person@gmail.com - 2016-09-11 15:41 -0700
  Re: Where "Best" to look for & post "for sale" vintage Forth materials? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-09-11 18:44 -0500
  Re: Where "Best" to look for & post "for sale" vintage Forth materials? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-11 17:47 -0700
  Re: Where "Best" to look for & post "for sale" vintage Forth materials? Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@zxdehrnyya.cam> - 2016-09-12 01:19 -0400

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