14-06-2011, 12:20 PM
I gave away and sold a stack of stuff early this year through the "other place" but regardless of putting "collection only" still had people requesting I post (not possible due to no funds or weight or not possible) or drop off somewhere. I was gutted to have to dump 60+ 1970's and 80's computer books.. long out of print and some for very rare hardware. (commodore mega why not.. both manuals) and books on unix and fortran stretching back into the 60's. I guess what some people think has value (a lovely perfect fergy 12" colour portable for example.. perfect for old computers or analog output vcr's) to others is just junk. Well.. now I'm downsized and the things which I guess had any value were salvaged and passed on.. Very collectable now seem to be the incredibly rare working late delta colour sets.. everybody is worried and interested in a dac90 for example (there are thousands and thousands out there) but not so much a pre-war Graves (most exotic and rare) or a mid 50's bakelite fergy, or even a HMV badged thorn/fergy 2000 colour set which there are probably less that 100 knocking about.
Other observations from the "other place" after being shouted at more than once for exposing real scams and real scammers and fraudsters on a well known auction site (I'm a member of a group of anti-fraud activists working on online "auction" sites) I gave up.. you can only save people from getting ripped off so many times and getting told off for it before you give up. One person I warned (and got a suspension for) was bidding on an item where I knew the seller.. and the seller and his friends were shill bidding on the item among themselves... and had no intention of sending the item as they didn't even own it.. Where does that come into "might upset members who use that site"? .. I gave up..
There is an elitist attitude which I find distasteful.. it's only happened here once.. and being an adult I left it alone because it was far too easy to post a list of actual definitions to precisely define the point... but when somebody who (by their own admission) hasn't done anything in the field for 25 years starts trying to "correct" already correct fact and information with obsolete assumptions and wordplay.. forget it..
I like it here.. everybody has different interests and skills. I think over the years we always learned various bodges and tricks which it is nice to share. I love the woodworking and welding bits myself.. having done a fair bit of both in my time. All I wish was a bit less of the 1950's standard stuff and a few more diverse articles perhaps on early 80's kit.. after all.. that is now over 25 years old and most of the things we see.. especially in the tv restores are our bread and butter sets from the early 80's second hand and home independent rental business... Does nobody have a VC53 d/s set about on a "to do" list.. make an old girl happy? (pl504 mod required.. the pl36 trashes the metrosil when it goes low emission which is impossible to replace and causes reduced width and ragged verticals)
now where was I.. oh yes.. waiting for the kettle to boil.. tea up!!
Other observations from the "other place" after being shouted at more than once for exposing real scams and real scammers and fraudsters on a well known auction site (I'm a member of a group of anti-fraud activists working on online "auction" sites) I gave up.. you can only save people from getting ripped off so many times and getting told off for it before you give up. One person I warned (and got a suspension for) was bidding on an item where I knew the seller.. and the seller and his friends were shill bidding on the item among themselves... and had no intention of sending the item as they didn't even own it.. Where does that come into "might upset members who use that site"? .. I gave up..
There is an elitist attitude which I find distasteful.. it's only happened here once.. and being an adult I left it alone because it was far too easy to post a list of actual definitions to precisely define the point... but when somebody who (by their own admission) hasn't done anything in the field for 25 years starts trying to "correct" already correct fact and information with obsolete assumptions and wordplay.. forget it..
I like it here.. everybody has different interests and skills. I think over the years we always learned various bodges and tricks which it is nice to share. I love the woodworking and welding bits myself.. having done a fair bit of both in my time. All I wish was a bit less of the 1950's standard stuff and a few more diverse articles perhaps on early 80's kit.. after all.. that is now over 25 years old and most of the things we see.. especially in the tv restores are our bread and butter sets from the early 80's second hand and home independent rental business... Does nobody have a VC53 d/s set about on a "to do" list.. make an old girl happy? (pl504 mod required.. the pl36 trashes the metrosil when it goes low emission which is impossible to replace and causes reduced width and ragged verticals)
now where was I.. oh yes.. waiting for the kettle to boil.. tea up!!
