[cctalk] Re: Old Silicon Valley poster

2022-12-04 Thread Alexander Huemer via cctalk
It would be cool if those could be scanned before disappearing somewhere. -Alex On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 09:11:44PM -0600, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > I'm cleaning out my warehouse bit by bit, and started selling posters > on the eBay. > > I have two of these: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm

[cctalk] Re: Old Silicon Valley poster

2022-12-04 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 12/4/22 21:34, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > For someplace that actually generates some tourist and souvenir traffic, > it made sense. > That's the funny thing about posters--some lapse into "what the heck was that about?" For example, I have a Cray 2 "Bubbles" poster that's been moldering in

[cctalk] Re: Old Silicon Valley poster

2022-12-04 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
For someplace that actually generates some tourist and souvenir traffic, it made sense. It is negligible cost to produce, and is a much easier sell for Professor Harold Hill than convincing the townfolk that they need to start a youth band to counteract the trouble, right here in River City, o

[cctalk] Re: Old Silicon Valley poster

2022-12-04 Thread brianb1224 via cctalk
Actually pretty smart. You probably should have worked for Commodore Amiga marketing. Where is Commodore Amiga in the map ? Original message From: John Foust via cctalk Date: 12/4/22 9:44 PM (GMT-06:00) To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: John Foust Subject: [cctalk] Old Silicon

[cctalk] Re: Old Silicon Valley poster

2022-12-04 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
There are a few possible scenarios, . . . you hang it up in your cubicle, and your boss says, "I've got to have one of those! I'd pay many hundreds of dollars, DON'T LET IT GET AWAY!,..." I remember when the advertising outfit came around in Berkeley (they did them in every town). I did not

[cctalk] Re: Old Silicon Valley poster

2022-12-04 Thread Ali via cctalk
> Not to humble brag, but what do I have here? I probably got > them for free at a trade show. Two idiots? I mean if I bought one poster for $95 and the same seller had a second one I would offer $95 for it again. Why would you offer $300 and then up it to $500? -Ali

[cctalk] Old Silicon Valley poster

2022-12-04 Thread John Foust via cctalk
I'm cleaning out my warehouse bit by bit, and started selling posters on the eBay. I have two of these: https://www.ebay.com/itm/334649989332 I sold one of these posters last week for $95+20 s/h. I listed the second one and the buyer of the first one submitted an offer for $300 and then fo

[cctalk] Re: Stuff available in Somerset, England - Update and MORE STUFF

2022-12-04 Thread Evan Koblentz via cctalk
Doh! I saw the beginning of the subject line and got excited: I'm in Somerset ... New Jersey. On 12/2/22 08:14, Philip Belben via cctalk wrote: Dear all, I am still trying to declutter enough to empty the storage container, and have room to move around in my basement.  I have decided not to

[cctalk] Re: Soviet PDP clones

2022-12-04 Thread Rumi Szabolcs via cctalk
Hi all, The Hungarian Central Institute of Physics (KFKI) in Soviet times used to make PDP and VAX clones branded as "TPA": http://hampage.hu/tpa/e_index.html Kudos to Ákos Varga "Hamster", one of the earliest Hungarian DEC collectors for preserving this information back in the '90s. Regards,