AH yea.. the gold scrappers don't get me going .... Brand new "NIB" Minuteman I D-17 computer section, the whole thing in a wooden crate.
Even had the white exterior panels, remember them each had "Warning Magnesium" stamped on the inside. Was around 1985. Offered $100 about 2 x scrap, he said he would think about it.. came back a couple days later, yep .. scrapped for the $20 of gold it may of had in it I was able to salvage the disk memory .. still have it, can be seen in the Wikipedia picture Everytime I see it I get pissed. It would have made a cool living room table ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B#/media/File:Autonetics_D-17.JPG On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:43 PM, George Currie <g...@kurico.com> wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2016 14:50:17 -0600 (MDT), Swift Griggs > <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting shame, >> let go of at some point and now I feel like it was a mistake: > > > It wasn't one I ever really possessed so technically it wasn't a throw/sell > away, but it was one that got away. > > That as an AT&T Pixel Machines PXM900. It was at an university auction, I > had already gone way over budget and I would have had to bid on the entire > pallet of stuff in order to get it. I anguished, bid anyway, got outbid and > declined to bid further. I immediately regretted the decision, contacted > the buyer right after the auction, he told me he'd get back to me on Monday > (yeah, you can see it coming). When I called on Monday, he was glowing > about how much gold was in the thing and he had already scrapped it :( > > I still regret that decision to this day (if it wasn't already obvious). > > Sigh. >
