On Oct 18, 2022, at 7:42 AM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
wrote:
> 
>> Don't be pedantic. You know what I mean.
>> Anyway, in the US, there are *significant* barriers to cross for
>> people taking your land.
> 
> And for the younger crowd it's very expensive now. Not like the old days 
> (assuming you live near a job center.)
> 
>                       - Ethan

This last weekend was the “Portland Retro Gaming Expo”, it was something of an 
eye opener as to how prices have gone up.  There were some good deals, for 
example I was tempted by the two Commodore 128D’s and the Atari Stacy one 
seller had, but as a whole, the prices leaned towards crazy.  

Thankfully I bought most of my collection of classic computers in the late 
90’s.  These days if I’m buying anything, it’s usually something modern to 
extend an old system, or a part I need.  I’ll also admit a certain amount of 
bewilderment on people getting excited to collect  something like a Pentium II.

Zane




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