Chip Davis wrote: >Have you seen what they go for on eBay, Jim? >I've seen asking prices of north of $1/card (no idea if they actually got >that). Sometimes the value is in the pre-printing more than the card itself. >Somewhere I've got a small stash of "Triangle Universities Computation Center" >cards with an early NC Research Triangle Park logo showing NCState, Duke, and >UNC on them. They date from the late sixties and ought to be worth at least a >buck each. Probably still bookmarking some CS text in a box somewhere.
>So, while I agree that they _are_ the best note cards ever (they fit so nicely >in my geeky white dress shirt pocket, even with three pens in a pocket >protector) I've stopped using them for that. >I've got a couple of cartons in my attic. Let's see, at a buck a card, two >thousand cards per box, five (or is it six?) boxes per carton, "Hello, >retirement fund!". >BTW, when folded in half twice, each quarter is almost exactly the size of a >business/calling card. I would leave a blank one stuck in the door if I came >by and no one was home; everyone knew I had been there. I was talking to an >old friend the other day, and she said she still has one in a scrapbook. I >never had printed business cards until the late-eighties when they finally got >rid of the card punch. Yeah, you have to keep your eyes open. I got a box for something like $80, but I also saw the ridiculous prices some folks were asking! …phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
