Re: [SWCollect] The Motherlode

2002-09-10 Thread Stefan Lindblom
Oh god.. how about we all go together and buy it? :) - Original Message - From: Jim Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:47 PM Subject: [SWCollect] The Motherlode Good god! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1379598219

Re: [SWCollect] The Motherlode

2002-09-10 Thread Alexander Zöller
Good Lord... this is by far the biggest lot of vintage software I've seen to date. Oh god.. how about we all go together and buy it? :) We'd need some fifty people to split the cost of it, can't imagine any of us would be able to put down more than five grand. Call it a hunch, but this won't

Re: [SWCollect] The Motherlode

2002-09-10 Thread Adam Baratz
It could also be from liquidation sales, like all the stuff Centsible Software obtains through company buyouts. They tend to buy several truckloads of software and computer parts at once. I'm getting the impression there still are many warehouses in the US stuffed with vintage software.

Re: [SWCollect] The Motherlode

2002-09-10 Thread Edward Franks
On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 06:26 PM, C.E. Forman wrote: [Snip] Personally I'd love to pool money with a bunch of other collectors and buy it up, but then we're faced with the impossible question of who gets what. B-) Highest Pac-Man scores picks first. ;-) Or,